Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, by Rosalind Rosenberg (Oxford University Press) Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, by Imani Perry (Beacon Press) 2018Ībandon Me, by Melissa Febos (Bloomsbury USA) The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon, by Jaime Harker (University of North Carolina Press) Patrick Johnson (University of North Carolina PressĬare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Arsenal Pulp Press) We Have Always Been Here, by Samra Habib (Viking / Penguin Canada) 2019īlack, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral History, by E. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, by Saidiya Hartman (W. Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser (Ecco) In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) (tie) The Power of Adrienne Rich, by Hilary Holladay (Nan A. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by Jenn Shapland (Tin House) Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity, by Tana Wojczuk (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, by Julie Marie Wade (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press)

The Secret to Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel (Mariner) 2021 Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones (The New Press)

Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, by Lauren Hough (Vintage) There has been a year with a tie, 2020 2022īessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography, by Jackie Kay (Vintage)

Bold type and a triangle indicate winners. In the listings below, finalists are presented in alphabetical order by book title. The finalists and the winners are determined by a panel of judges appointed by the Publishing Triangle’s awards committee. It recognizes works that are by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or transwomen, or that have a significant influence upon the lives of queer women. 1940) best known for The Common Woman (1969) and Another Mother Tongue (rev. The Judy Grahn Award honors the American writer, cultural theorist and activist (b. Each award is for books published in the preceding year in the United States or Canada (i.e., the 2019 award below honored the best books published in 2018). The Publishing Triangle began giving awards for nonfiction in 1997.

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