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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 honor of American poet and cultural theorist Judy Grahn.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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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 | ||
2023 | Raquel Gutierrez | Brown Neon | Coffee House 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] |