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Nationality
  
American

Period
  
2000s-present


Name
  
Judith Frank

Role
  
Writer

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Occupation
  
novelist, short stories

Notable works
  
Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know

Education
  
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Awards
  
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction

Books
  
All I Love and Know: A Novel, Crybaby Butch, Common Ground: Eighteent

Creative Writing at Amherst: an Interview with Judith Frank


Judith Frank is an American writer and professor. She has been a two-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, winning in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 17th Lambda Literary Awards in 2005 for her novel Crybaby Butch, and being a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Fiction category at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for All I Love and Know.

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Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her B.A. and Cornell University for her MFA and PhD. She joined Amherst College as a professor of English and creative writing in 1988.

She has also published short stories in The Massachusetts Review, Other Voices and Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005, as well as the critical study Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor.

Works

  • Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor (1997)
  • Crybaby Butch (2004)
  • All I Love and Know (2014)
  • Awards

  • 2000: Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Award for fiction from the Astraea Foundation
  • 2005: Lambda Literary Award for Crybaby Butch
  • 2006: Yaddo artists' colony residency
  • 2008: National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
  • 2012: MacDowell Colony residency
  • References

    Judith Frank Wikipedia