| Judith Frank | |
| Occupation: | Novelist, short story writer |
| Period: | 2000s–present |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Cornell University (MFA, PhD) |
| Notableworks: | Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know |
Judith Frank is an American writer and professor.[1] [2] 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,[3] and being a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Fiction category at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for All I Love and Know.[4] She is Jewish.[5]
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager.[6] 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.[6]
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.