# Judy Grahn Award

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 :
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 1997 | Bernadette Brooten | Love Between Women | | Winner |
| 1997 | Honor Moore | White Blackbird | | Finalist |
| 1997 | Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Warriors | | Finalist |
| 1998 | Margot Peters | May Sarton | | Winner |
| 1998 | Amy Hoffman | Hospital Time | | Finalist |
| 1998 | Sherrie Inness | The Lesbian Menace | | Finalist |
| 1999 | Jack Halberstam | Female Masculinity | | Winner |
| 1999 | Alison Bechdel | The Incredible Bechdel | | Finalist |
| 1999 | Jill Johnston | Admission Accomplished | | Finalist |
| 2000 | Hilary Lapsley | Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women | University of Massachusetts Press | Winner |
| 2000 | Joan Larkin (ed.) | A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories | Avon | Finalist |
| 2000 | Lillian Faderman | To Believe in Women | Houghton Mifflin | Finalist |
| 2001 | Amber Hollibaugh | My Dangerous Desires | Duke University Press | Winner |
| 2001 | Bonnie J. Morris | Girl Reel | Coffee House Press | Finalist |
| 2001 | Carole Maso | The Room Lit by Roses | Counterpoint | Finalist |
| 2002 | Laura L. Doan | Fashioning Sapphism | Columbia University Press | Winner |
| 2002 | Adrienne Rich | Arts of the Possible | W. W. Norton | Finalist |
| 2002 | 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 |
| 2003 | Magie Dominic | The Queen of Peace Room | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Finalist |
| 2003 | Suzanna Rodriguez | Wild at Heart | Ecco/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2004 | Lillian Faderman | Naked in the Promised Land | Houghton Mifflin | Winner |
| 2004 | Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Bloomsbury | Finalist |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2005 | Alexis De Veaux | Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde | W. W. Norton | Finalist |
| 2005 | Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | W. W. Norton | Finalist |
| 2006 | Tania Katan | My One-Night Stand with Cancer | Alyson Books | Winner |
| 2006 | Diana Souhami | Wild Girls | St. Martin’s Press | Finalist |
| 2006 | Gretchen Legler | On the Ice | Milkweed Editions | Finalist |
| 2007 | Alison Bechdel | Fun Home | Houghton Mifflin | Winner |
| 2007 | Catherine Friend | Hit by a Farm | Marlowe & Company | Finalist |
| 2007 | Marcia Gallo | Different Daughters | Carroll & Graf | Finalist |
| 2008 | Janet Malcolm | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Yale University Press | Winner |
| 2008 | Amy Hoffman | An Army of Ex-Lovers | University of Massachusetts Press | Finalist |
| 2008 | Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Princeton University Press | Finalist |
| 2009 | Andrea Weiss | In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain | University of Chicago Press | Winner |
| 2009 | Nancy D. Polikoff | Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage | Beacon Press | Finalist |
| 2009 | Regina Kunzel | Criminal Intimacy | University of Chicago Press | Finalist |
| 2010 | Rebecca Brown | American Romances | City Lights | Winner |
| 2010 | Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith | St. Martin’s Press | Finalist |
| 2010 | Mary Cappello | Called Back | Alyson Books | Finalist |
| 2011 | Barbara Hammer | Hammer! | The Feminist Press | Winner |
| 2011 | Emma Donoghue | Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | Alfred A. Knopf | Finalist |
| 2011 | Terry Castle | The Professor and Other Writings | Harper/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jeanne Córdova | When We Were Outlaws | Spinsters Ink | Winner |
| 2012 | Gayle S. Rubin | Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader | Duke University Press | Finalist |
| 2012 | 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 |
| 2013 | Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal | Grove Press | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kate Bornstein | A Queer and Pleasant Danger | Beacon Press | Finalist |
| 2013 | 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 |
| 2014 | Donna Minkowitz | Growing Up Golem | Magnus Books/Riverdale Avenue | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders | Crown | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julia Serano | Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive | Seal Press | Finalist |
| 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 |
| 2015 | Ariel Gore | The End of Eve | Hawthorne Books | Finalist |
| 2015 | Daisy Hernandez | A Cup of Water Under My Bed | Beacon Press | Finalist |
| 2015 | 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 |
| 2016 | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | Simon and Schuster | Finalist |
| 2016 | Maggie Thrash | Honor Girl | Candlewick Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | Sarah Schulman | Conflict Is Not Abuse | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner |
| 2017 | Elizabeth M. Edman | Queer Virtue | Beacon Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | 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 |
| 2018 | Eileen Myles | Afterglow | Grove Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Melissa Febos | Abandon Me | Bloomsbury USA | Finalist |
| 2018 | Myriam Gurba | Mean | Coffee House Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Imani Perry | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Beacon Press | Winner |
| 2019 | E. Patrick Johnson | Black, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral History | University of North Carolina Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jaime Harker | The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon | University of North Carolina Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2020 | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House | Graywolf Press | Winner |
| 2020 | Saidiya Hartman | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | W. W. Norton | Winner |
| 2020 | Benjamin Moser | Sontag: Her Life and Work | Ecco | Finalist |
| 2020 | Samra Habib | We Have Always Been Here | Viking / Penguin Canada | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Tin House | Winner |
| 2021 | Hilary Holladay | The Power of Adrienne Rich | Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | Finalist |
| 2021 | Julie Marie Wade | Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing | Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press | Finalist |
| 2021 | 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 |
| 2022 | Alison Bechdel | The Secret to Superhuman Strength | Mariner | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jackie Kay | Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography | Vintage | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lauren Hough | Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing | Vintage | Finalist |
| 2023 | Raquel Gutierrez | Brown Neon | Coffee House Press | Winner |
| 2023 | Leslie Absher | Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets | Latah Books | Finalist |
| 2023 | MB Cashetta | A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Engine Books | Finalist |
| 2023 | Wendy L. Rouse | Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement | NYU Press | Finalist |
| 2024 | Barbara Jane Brickman | Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture | Rutgers University Press | Winner |
| 2024 | Cookie Woolner | The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall | University of North Carolina Press | Finalist |
| 2024 | Lamya H | Hijab Butch Blues | Dial Press | Finalist |
| 2024 | A.V. Marraccini | We the Parasites | Sublunary Editions | Finalist |
| 2025 | Sandra Gail Lambert | My Withered Legs and Other Essays | University of Georgia Press | Finalist |
| 2025 | June Thomas | A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women’s Culture | Seal Press Hatchett Book Group | Finalist |
| 2025 | Sarah Leavitt | Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2025 | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |