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 + Award winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitlePublisherResult1997Love Between WomenWinnerWhite BlackbirdFinalistTransgender Warriors Finalist1998May Sarton WinnerHospital TimeFinalistFinalist1999Female MasculinityWinnerFinalistAdmission AccomplishedFinalist2000Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of WomenUniversity of Massachusetts PressWinner (ed.)AvonFinalistTo Believe in WomenHoughton MifflinFinalist2001My Dangerous DesiresDuke University PressWinnerGirl ReelCoffee House PressFinalistCounterpointFinalist2002Fashioning SapphismColumbia University PressWinnerArts of the PossibleW. W. NortonFinalistAll the RageUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist2003Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women's BuildingCity LightsWinnerWilfrid Laurier University PressFinalistWild at HeartEcco/HarperCollinsFinalist2004Naked in the Promised LandHoughton MifflinWinnerBeautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia HighsmithBloomsburyFinalistUniversity Press of KansasFinalist2005Name All the AnimalsScribnerWinnerWarrior Poet: A Life of Audre LordeW. W. NortonFinalistAlice WalkerW. W. NortonFinalist2006My One-Night Stand with CancerAlyson BooksWinnerWild Girls St. Martin's PressFinalistOn the IceMilkweed EditionsFinalist2007Fun HomeHoughton MifflinWinnerHit by a FarmMarlowe & CompanyFinalistDifferent DaughtersCarroll & GrafFinalist2008Two Lives: Gertrude and AliceYale University PressWinner University of Massachusetts PressFinalistBetween WomenPrinceton University PressFinalist2009In the Shadow of the Magic MountainUniversity of Chicago PressWinnerBeyond (Straight and Gay) MarriageBeacon PressFinalistCriminal IntimacyUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist2010American RomancesCity LightsWinnerSt. Martin's PressFinalistCalled BackAlyson BooksFinalist2011Hammer!The Feminist PressWinnerInseparable: Desire Between Women in LiteratureAlfred A. KnopfFinalistHarper/HarperCollinsFinalist2012When We Were OutlawsSpinsters InkWinnerDeviations: A Gayle Rubin ReaderDuke University PressFinalistSister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian LandscapesUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist2013Are You My Mother?Houghton Mifflin HarcourtWinnerWhy Be Happy When You Can Be NormalGrove PressFinalistBeacon PressFinalistMy Almost Certainly Real Imaginary JesusArktoi/Red HenFinalist2014Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace HutchinsSUNY PressWinnerGrowing Up GolemMagnus Books/Riverdale AvenueFinalistStuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three GendersCrownFinalistExcluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More InclusiveSeal PressFinalist2015; edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia EubanksAin't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara SmithSUNY PressWinnerHawthorne BooksFinalistBeacon PressFinalistEating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian AvengerUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist2016Cornell University PressWinnerDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way HomeArsenal Pulp PressFinalistSimon and SchusterFinalistHonor GirlCandlewick PressFinalist2017Conflict Is Not AbuseArsenal Pulp PressWinnerQueer VirtueBeacon PressFinalistLavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian LeftUniversity of California PressFinalist2018Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayOxford University PressWinnerAfterglowGrove PressFinalistAbandon MeBloomsbury USAFinalistMeanCoffee House PressFinalist2019Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryBeacon PressWinnerBlack, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral HistoryUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalistUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalistCare Work: Dreaming Disability JusticeArsenal Pulp PressFinalist2020In the Dream HouseGraywolf PressWinnerWayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsW. W. NortonWinnerSontag: Her Life and WorkEccoFinalistWe Have Always Been HereViking / Penguin CanadaFinalist2021My Autobiography of Carson McCullersTin HouseWinnerNan A. Talese/DoubledayFinalistJust an Ordinary Woman BreathingMad Creek Books/Ohio State University PressFinalistLady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First CelebrityAvid Reader Press/Simon & SchusterFinalist2022 (ed.)Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian ThoughtThe New PressWinnerMarinerFinalistBessie Smith: A Poet's BiographyVintageFinalistLeaving Isn't the Hardest ThingVintageFinalist2023Brown NeonCoffee House PressWinnerSpy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of SecretsLatah BooksFinalistEngine BooksFinalistPublic Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage MovementNYU PressFinalist2024Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular CultureRutgers University PressWinnerUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalistHijab Butch BluesDial PressFinalistWe the ParasitesSublunary EditionsFinalist2025Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre LordeFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerMy Withered Legs and Other EssaysUniversity of Georgia PressFinalistSeal Press Hatchett Book GroupFinalistSomething, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and LoveArsenal Pulp PressFinalist2026Beyond the Lesbian VampireUniversity of Wales PressWinnerAll the Parts We ExileKnopf CanadaFinalistMilena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück St. Martin's PressFinalistNo Offense: A Memoir in EssaysELJ EditionsFinalistWorthy of the Event: An Essay LittlePuss PressFinalist
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