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The Judy Grahn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honor works of non-fiction of relevance to the lesbian community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in honor of American poet and cultural theorist Judy Grahn.

Recipients

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Award winners and finalists[1]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
1997 Bernadette Brooten Love Between Women Winner
Honor Moore White Blackbird Finalist
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors Finalist
1998 Margot Peters May Sarton Winner
Amy Hoffman Hospital Time Finalist
Sherrie Inness The Lesbian Menace Finalist
1999 Jack Halberstam Female Masculinity Winner
Alison Bechdel The Incredible Bechdel Finalist
Jill Johnston Admission Accomplished Finalist
2000 Hilary Lapsley Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women University of Massachusetts Press Winner
Joan Larkin (ed.) A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories Avon Finalist
Lillian Faderman To Believe in Women Houghton Mifflin Finalist
2001 Amber Hollibaugh My Dangerous Desires Duke University Press Winner
Bonnie J. Morris Girl Reel Coffee House Press Finalist
Carole Maso The Room Lit by Roses Counterpoint Finalist
2002 Laura L. Doan Fashioning Sapphism Columbia University Press Winner
Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible W. W. Norton Finalist
Suzanna Danuta Walters All the Rage University of Chicago Press Finalist
2003 Terry Wolverton Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women’s Building City Lights Winner
Magie Dominic The Queen of Peace Room Wilfrid Laurier University Press Finalist
Suzanna Rodriguez Wild at Heart Ecco/HarperCollins Finalist
2004 Lillian Faderman Naked in the Promised Land Houghton Mifflin Winner
Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith Bloomsbury Finalist
Casey Charles The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial University Press of Kansas Finalist
2005 Alison Smith Name All the Animals Scribner Winner
Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde W. W. Norton Finalist
Evelyn C. White Alice Walker W. W. Norton Finalist
2006 Tania Katan My One-Night Stand with Cancer Alyson Books Winner [2]
Diana Souhami Wild Girls St. Martin’s Press Finalist
Gretchen Legler On the Ice Milkweed Editions Finalist
2007 Alison Bechdel Fun Home Houghton Mifflin Winner [3]
Catherine Friend Hit by a Farm Marlowe & Company Finalist
Marcia Gallo Different Daughters Carroll & Graf Finalist
2008 Janet Malcolm Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice Yale University Press Winner [4]
Amy Hoffman An Army of Ex-Lovers University of Massachusetts Press Finalist
Sharon Marcus Between Women Princeton University Press Finalist
2009 Andrea Weiss In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain University of Chicago Press Winner [5]
Nancy D. Polikoff Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage Beacon Press Finalist
Regina Kunzel Criminal Intimacy University of Chicago Press Finalist
2010 Rebecca Brown American Romances City Lights Winner
Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith St. Martin’s Press Finalist
Mary Cappello Called Back Alyson Books Finalist
2011 Barbara Hammer Hammer! The Feminist Press Winner [6]
Emma Donoghue Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Alfred A. Knopf Finalist
Terry Castle The Professor and Other Writings Harper/HarperCollins Finalist
2012 Jeanne Córdova When We Were Outlaws Spinsters Ink Winner
Gayle S. Rubin Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader Duke University Press Finalist
Lisa L. Moore Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes University of Minnesota Press Finalist
2013 Alison Bechdel Are You My Mother? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [7]
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal Grove Press Finalist
Kate Bornstein A Queer and Pleasant Danger Beacon Press Finalist
Kelly Barth My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus Arktoi/Red Hen Finalist
2014 Julia M. Allen Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins SUNY Press Winner [8][9]
Donna Minkowitz Growing Up Golem Magnus Books/Riverdale Avenue Finalist [10]
Jennifer Finney Boylan Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders Crown Finalist [10]
Julia Serano Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive Seal Press Finalist [10]
2015 Barbara Smith; edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith SUNY Press Winner [11]
Ariel Gore The End of Eve Hawthorne Books Finalist
Daisy Hernandez A Cup of Water Under My Bed Beacon Press Finalist
Kelly Cogswell Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger University of Minnesota Press Finalist
2016 Marcia Gallo "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy Cornell University Press Winner [12]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Simon and Schuster Finalist
Maggie Thrash Honor Girl Candlewick Press Finalist
2017 Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not Abuse Arsenal Pulp Press Winner [13][14][15]
Elizabeth M. Edman Queer Virtue Beacon Press Finalist
Emily K. Hobson Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left University of California Press Finalist
2018 Rosalind Rosenberg Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray Oxford University Press Winner [16]
Eileen Myles Afterglow Grove Press Finalist
Melissa Febos Abandon Me Bloomsbury USA Finalist
Myriam Gurba Mean Coffee House Press Finalist
2019 Imani Perry Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Beacon Press Winner [17]
E. Patrick Johnson Black, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral History University of North Carolina Press Finalist [18]
Jaime Harker The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon University of North Carolina Press Finalist [18]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [18]
2020 Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House Graywolf Press Winner [19][20]
Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments W. W. Norton Winner [19][20]
Benjamin Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work Ecco Finalist [21]
Samra Habib We Have Always Been Here Viking / Penguin Canada Finalist [21]
2021 Jenn Shapland My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Tin House Winner [22][23]
Hilary Holladay The Power of Adrienne Rich Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Finalist
Julie Marie Wade Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press Finalist
Tana Wojczuk Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster Finalist
2022 Briona Simone Jones (ed.) Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought The New Press Winner [24]
Alison Bechdel The Secret to Superhuman Strength Mariner Finalist
Jackie Kay Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography Vintage Finalist
Lauren Hough Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing Vintage Finalist
2023 Raquel Gutierrez Brown Neon Coffee House Press Winner [25][26]
Leslie Absher Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets Latah Books Finalist
MB Cashetta A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Engine Books Finalist
Wendy L. Rouse Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement NYU Press Finalist
2024 Barbara Jane Brickman Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture Rutgers University Press Winner [27][28]
Cookie Woolner The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall University of North Carolina Press Finalist [29]
Lamya H Hijab Butch Blues Dial Press Finalist [29]
A.V. Marraccini We the Parasites Sublunary Editions Finalist [29]
2025 Sandra Gail Lambert My Withered Legs and Other Essays University of Georgia Press Finalist [30]
June Thomas A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women’s Culture Seal Press Hatchett Book Group Finalist [30]
Sarah Leavitt Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [30]
Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist [30]

References

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  1. ^ "The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction". The Publishing Triangle. Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  2. ^ "Awards: The 18th Annual Triangles". Shelf Awareness. May 12, 2006. Archived from the original on November 29, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Awards: Publishing Triangle, Ferro-Grumley, Chesley". Shelf Awareness. May 8, 2007. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  4. ^ "Awards: Winners of Nebula; Triangle; Eric Hoffer". Shelf Awareness. April 29, 2008. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  5. ^ "Awards: Triangle; Irish Book". Shelf Awareness. May 8, 2009. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  6. ^ "Awards: L.A. Times Book Prizes; BTBA; Triangle". Shelf Awareness . May 2, 2011. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  7. ^ Bookey, Seth J. (May 8, 2013). "Going for the Silver – Gay City News". Gay City News. Archived from the original on February 5, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  8. ^ "Triangle Award Winners Revealed". Publishers Weekly. April 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  9. ^ "Awards: Cervantes Winner; Triangle Winners; Orwell Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. April 25, 2014. Archived from the original on May 18, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  10. ^ a b c "Triangle Award Finalists Named". Publishers Weekly. March 12, 2014. Archived from the original on December 29, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  11. ^ "Awards: Triangle; Thwaites Wainwright; CrimeFest". Shelf Awareness . April 24, 2015. Archived from the original on July 19, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  12. ^ "Awards: Triangle; Orwell; James Tait Black". Shelf Awareness. April 22, 2016. Archived from the original on April 22, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  13. ^ "Awards: Publishing Triangle Finalists". Shelf Awareness. March 12, 2018. Archived from the original on October 27, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  14. ^ "Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white". CBC Books. May 1, 2017. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  15. ^ "Awards: Edgars; Publishing Triangle; Chicago Tribune YA; Dewdney Read Together". Shelf Awareness. April 28, 2017. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  16. ^ "Awards: Edgars; Publishing Triangle". Shelf Awareness. April 27, 2018. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  17. ^ Maher, John (April 26, 2019). "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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  19. ^ a b Yohannes, Samraweet (May 1, 2020). "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature". CBC Books. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  20. ^ a b "Awards: Triangle, Wolff Translator's Winners". Shelf Awareness . May 4, 2020. Archived from the original on September 21, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  21. ^ a b Yohannes, Samraweet (March 23, 2020). "Samra Habib, Kai Cheng Thom and Téa Mutonji among finalists for 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards". CBC Books. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  22. ^ "2021 Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. May 12, 2021. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  23. ^ "Awards: Triangle Winners; Firecracker Finalists". Shelf Awareness. May 13, 2021. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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  25. ^ "2023 Publishing Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2023. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  26. ^ "Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners". Shelf Awareness. May 1, 2023. Archived from the original on December 24, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  27. ^ Albanese, Andrew (April 18, 2024). "Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on May 15, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  28. ^ "Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners; Donner Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. April 18, 2024. Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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  30. ^ a b c d "2024 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced". The Publishing Triangle. March 18, 2024. Archived from the original on April 28, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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