Judy Grahn Award Explained

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.

Recipients

Award winners and finalists^[1]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1997		Love Between Women		Winner
		White Blackbird		Finalist
		Transgender Warriors		Finalist
1998		May Sarton		Winner
		Hospital Time		Finalist
				Finalist
1999		Female Masculinity		Winner
				Finalist
		Admission Accomplished		Finalist
2000		Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women	University of Massachusetts Press	Winner
	(ed.)		Avon	Finalist
		To Believe in Women	Houghton Mifflin	Finalist
2001		My Dangerous Desires	Duke University Press	Winner
		Girl Reel	Coffee House Press	Finalist
			Counterpoint	Finalist
2002		Fashioning Sapphism	Columbia University Press	Winner
		Arts of the Possible	W. W. Norton	Finalist
		All the Rage	University of Chicago Press	Finalist
2003		Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women’s Building	City Lights	Winner
			Wilfrid Laurier University Press	Finalist
		Wild at Heart	Ecco/HarperCollins	Finalist
2004		Naked in the Promised Land	Houghton Mifflin	Winner
		Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith	Bloomsbury	Finalist
			University Press of Kansas	Finalist
2005		Name All the Animals	Scribner	Winner
		Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde	W. W. Norton	Finalist
		Alice Walker	W. W. Norton	Finalist
2006		My One-Night Stand with Cancer	Alyson Books	Winner	^[2]
		Wild Girls	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
		On the Ice	Milkweed Editions	Finalist
2007		Fun Home	Houghton Mifflin	Winner	^[3]
		Hit by a Farm	Marlowe & Company	Finalist
		Different Daughters	Carroll & Graf	Finalist
2008		Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice	Yale University Press	Winner	^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction . 2024-05-21 . . en-US . 2023-12-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226235912/https://publishingtriangle.org/awards/judy-grahn-lesbian-nonfiction/ . live .
2. Web site: 2006-05-12 . Awards: The 18th Annual Triangles . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231129211435/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=209 . 2023-11-29 . 2024-05-20 . Shelf Awareness.
3. Web site: 2007-05-08 . Awards: Publishing Triangle, Ferro-Grumley, Chesley . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171001222524/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=432 . 2017-10-01 . 2024-05-20 . Shelf Awareness.
4. Web site: 2008-04-29 . Awards: Winners of Nebula; Triangle; Eric Hoffer . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002023202/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=665 . 2017-10-02 . 2024-05-20 . Shelf Awareness.