nationality notableworks period article_title name occupation
american '' and know '' crybaby butch '' , '' all i love 2000s-present judith frank
 judith frank novelist , short stories
judith frank

judith frank is an american writer .
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 '' , and being a shortlisted nominee in the gay fiction category at the 27th lambda literary awards in 2015 for `` all i love and know '' .
originally from evanston , illinois , frank spent some time living in jerusalem , israel as a teenager .
she was educated at the hebrew university of jerusalem and cornell university , and joined amherst college as a professor of english and creative writing in 1988 .
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 '' .
