Judy Grahn Award

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

Winners

1997 — Bernadette Brooten, Love Between Women

1998 — Margot Peters, May Sarton: A Biography

1999 — Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity

2000 — Hilary Lapsley, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women

2001 — Amber Hollibaugh, My Dangerous Desires

2002 — Laura L. Doan, Fashioning Sapphism

2003 — Terry Wolverton, Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

2004 — Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land

2005 — Alison Smith, Name All the Animals

2006 — Tania Katan, My One-Night Stand with Cancer

2007 — Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

2008 — Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

2009 — Andrea Weiss, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain

2010 — Rebecca Brown, American Romances

2011 — Barbara Hammer, Hammer!

2012 — Jeanne Córdova, When We Were Outlaws

2013 — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?

2014 — Julia M. Allen, Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins

2015 — Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

2016 — Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy

References

Judy Grahn Award Wikipedia

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