literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
program, presented by the Bi Writers Association to honour the year's best works of literature addressing themes of
bisexuality
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whic ...
. The awards were presented for the first time in 2013.
Awards are presented in 11 categories, where any writer who has addressed bisexual themes in their work may be submitted for consideration regardless of their own sexual orientation. Two special awards are also presented: the Bi Book Publisher Award to the publishing company that has submitted the most books to the awards program that year, and the Bi Writer Award for the best book by an out bisexual writer.
Ellis Avery
Ellis Avery (born Elisabeth Atwood; October 25, 1972 – February 15, 2019) was an American writer. She won two Stonewall Book Awards (the only author to have done so), one in 2008 for her debut novel ''The Teahouse Fire'' and one in 2013 for her ...
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The Last Nude
''The Last Nude'' is a work of historical fiction by Ellis Avery published by Riverhead in the US in 2012. Set primarily in 1927 Paris, the book is largely inspired by events in the life of artist Tamara de Lempicka.
Plot
Set primarily in 19 ...
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Annette Lapointe
Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''Stolen'' was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University ...
Lee Mandelo
Lee may refer to:
Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...
, ''Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction''
* Richard Mason, ''History of a Pleasure Seeker''
* Basil Papademos, ''Mount Royal''
Bisexual Non-fiction
* Cheryl Burke, ''My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B''
* Janet W. Hardy, ''Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals''
Mykola Dementiuk
Mykola Dementiuk (born 1949) is an American author. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in ''Pink Pages'', ''Atom Mind'', ''Paramour'', and ''EIDOS Magazine''. He was a member of the road crew for Lollapalooza, the Big Apple Ci ...
, ''Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple''
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Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan (born April 8, 1967) is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also writes about baseball ...
, ''The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four''
Lee Mandelo
Lee may refer to:
Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...
, ''Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction''
* Fiona Glass, ''Gleams of a Remoter World''
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Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan (born April 8, 1967) is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also writes about baseball ...
, ''The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four''
* Catherine Lundoff, ''Silver Moon''
Bi Writer of the Year
* Cheryl Burke, ''My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B''
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Mykola Dementiuk
Mykola Dementiuk (born 1949) is an American author. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in ''Pink Pages'', ''Atom Mind'', ''Paramour'', and ''EIDOS Magazine''. He was a member of the road crew for Lollapalooza, the Big Apple Ci ...
, ''Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple''
* Janet W. Hardy, ''Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals''
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Annette Lapointe
Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''Stolen'' was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University ...
Lee Mandelo
Lee may refer to:
Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan (born April 8, 1967) is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also writes about baseball ...
, ''The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four''
Sibling Rivalry Press
Sibling Rivalry Press is a small press publishing house based in Little Rock, Arkansas founded by Bryan Borland in 2010. It features both online and print components as well as the non-profit SRP Foundation, which financially supports the arts.
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2014
Bisexual Fiction
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Manil Suri
Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, '' The Death of Vishnu'' (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for th ...
, ''The City of Devi''
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Susan Choi
Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist.
Early life and education
Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her m ...
Hild
Hild or Hildr may refer to:
* Hildr or Hild is one of the Valkyries in Norse mythology, a personification of battle
* Hild or Hilda of Whitby is a Christian saint who was a British abbess and nun in the Middle Ages
* Hild (Oh My Goddess!), the ult ...
Arlene Schindler Arlene may refer to:
* Arleen, a feminine name, also spelled Arlene
* "Arlene" (song), the 1985 debut single by American country music artist Marty Stuart
* Arlene, a Beanie Baby cat produced by Ty, Inc.
* Hurricane Arlene, the name of several tro ...
Shiri Eisner
Shiri Eisner is a genderqueer bisexual writer and activist based in Tel Aviv. Eisner works towards deconstructing stereotypes attached to bisexuality arguing that their subversive power should be utilized rather than rejected by bisexual movem ...
, ''Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution''
* Marina Peralta and Penelope James, ''Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity''
* Maria San Filippo, ''The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television''
* Jade Sylvan, ''Kissing Oscar Wilde: A Love Story in the City of Light''
Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature. She is known for the '' Weetzie Bat'' series, which she began while a student at UC Berkeley.
Early life
Block was born in Los Angeles to a ...
, ''Love in The Time of Global Warming''
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982) () is an American writer of speculative fiction.
Career
Apart from short fiction, Johnson has published two urban fantasy novels about "vampire suffragette" Zephyr Hollis set in an alternate 1920s New York City, a ...
, ''The Summer Prince''
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Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including ''Ash'', ''Huntress'', ''Adaptation'', ''Inheritance,'' ''A Line in the Dark'', and '' Last Night at the Telegraph Club''. She also does research on diversity in young adult literat ...
, ''Inheritance''
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Saundra Mitchell
Saundra Mitchell (born September 3, 1973) is an American novelist who has also written under the pseudonyms of Jessa Holbrook and Alex Mallory.
Personal life
Mitchell is gay and has daughters.
Career
Mitchell worked as the head screenwriter ...
, ''The Elementals''
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Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (born July 26, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and academic of Sri Lankan birth.
Background
Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka but moved to the United States at the age of two and grew up in New Britain, ...
, ''The Stars Change''
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Emma Trevayne
Emma Trevayne is a British (expatriate American) speculative fiction author.
Novels
Trevayne's debut novel ''Coda'' released in May 2013. A young adult cyberpunk novel, the narrative follows Anthem, an eighteen-year-old boy who lives in a worl ...
, ''Coda''
Bisexual Teen/Young Adult Fiction
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Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including ''Ash'', ''Huntress'', ''Adaptation'', ''Inheritance,'' ''A Line in the Dark'', and '' Last Night at the Telegraph Club''. She also does research on diversity in young adult literat ...
, ''Inheritance''
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Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature. She is known for the '' Weetzie Bat'' series, which she began while a student at UC Berkeley.
Early life
Block was born in Los Angeles to a ...
, ''Love in The Time of Global Warming''
* M. G. Higgins, ''Bi-Normal''
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982) () is an American writer of speculative fiction.
Career
Apart from short fiction, Johnson has published two urban fantasy novels about "vampire suffragette" Zephyr Hollis set in an alternate 1920s New York City, a ...
Pantomime
Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking ...
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Bisexual Biography/Memoir
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Alden Jones
Alden Jones (born June 5, 1972) is an American writer and educator. She is the author of memoirs ''The Wanting Was a Wilderness'' (2020) and ''The Blind Masseuse'' (2013) and the short story collection ''Unaccompanied Minors'' (2014). ''The Blin ...
, ''The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia''
* Charles "Zan" Christensen, ''Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight''
* Marina Peralta and Penelope James, ''Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity''
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the U ...
, ''Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica''
* Livia Ellis, ''Memoirs of a Gigolo Omnibus''
* Jean Roberta, ''The Flight of the Black Swan''
* Elizabeth Schechter, ''House of Sable Locks''
Bi Writer of the Year
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Shiri Eisner
Shiri Eisner is a genderqueer bisexual writer and activist based in Tel Aviv. Eisner works towards deconstructing stereotypes attached to bisexuality arguing that their subversive power should be utilized rather than rejected by bisexual movem ...
, ''Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution''
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Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the U ...
, ''Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica''
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Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer, in 2000.
From 1967 to 1 ...
Ed Kurtz
Ed, ed or ED may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc
* Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media
* ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ...
, ''A Wind of Knives''
* Marina Peralta and Penelope James, ''Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity''
* Jean Roberta, ''The Flight of the Black Swan''
Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year
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Circlet Press
Circlet Press is a publishing house in Cambridge, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It was founded by Cecilia Tan, who is also its manager. It specializes in science fiction erotica, a once uncommon genre, and its publications often feature BDS ...
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Riverdale Avenue Books
Riverdale Avenue Books, located in Riverdale, Bronx, New York, is a publisher of e-books, print books on demand and audiobooks founded in 2012 by Lori Perkins. Riverdale is a member of the American Association of Publishers and publishes between 5 ...
The Paying Guests
''The Paying Guests'' is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named "Fiction Book of the Year" by ''The Sunday Times'' who said that "this novel magnificently confirms Sarah ...
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Bisexual Non-fiction
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Robyn Ochs
Robyn Ochs (born 1958) is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity, and coalition building. She is the editor of the ''Bisexual Resource Guide'' (publ ...
Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Jacob Anderson-Minshall (born September 14, 1967) is an American author.
Early life and education
Assigned as female at birth, Anderson-Minshall was raised Catholic on a farm outside of Inkom, Idaho.
He cites his mother's influence in social ...
Charles M. Blow
Charles McRay Blow (born August 11, 1970) is an American journalist, commentator and op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times'' and current political analyst for MSNBC.
Early life
Blow was born and raised in Gibsland, Louisiana. He was educated ...
, ''Fire Shut Up in My Bones''
* Breanne Fahs, ''Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)''
* Daisy Hernández, ''A Cup of Water Under My Bed''
* Edward White, ''The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America''
May Woodworth
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days.
May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, Ma ...
, ''Heart of the Hurricane''
* L. C. Chase, ''Let it Ride''
* Jenna Galicki, ''The Prince of Punk Rock (Radical Rock Stars Book One)''
Alex Jeffers
Alex Jeffers is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the grandson of Robinson Jeffers. His work has appeared in ''The Pioneer'', the ''North American Review'', ''Blithe House Quarterly'', and ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. He also c ...
Charles M. Blow
Charles McRay Blow (born August 11, 1970) is an American journalist, commentator and op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times'' and current political analyst for MSNBC.
Early life
Blow was born and raised in Gibsland, Louisiana. He was educated ...
, ''Fire Shut Up in My Bones''
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Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a British actor. His London stage appearances include ''Hamlet'', the Maniac in ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in '' Bent'', The National Theatre o ...
, ''Not My Father’s Son''
* Daniel Schreiber, ''Susan Sontag: A Biography''
* Edward White, ''The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America''
Robyn Ochs
Robyn Ochs (born 1958) is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity, and coalition building. She is the editor of the ''Bisexual Resource Guide'' (publ ...
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the U ...
, ''Big Book of Submission: 69 Kinky Tales''
Bi Writer of the Year
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Robyn Ochs
Robyn Ochs (born 1958) is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity, and coalition building. She is the editor of the ''Bisexual Resource Guide'' (publ ...
Sheela Lambert
Sheela Lambert (born 1956 in New York City) is an American bisexual activistDaisy Hernández, ''A Cup of Water Under My Bed''
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Charles M. Blow
Charles McRay Blow (born August 11, 1970) is an American journalist, commentator and op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times'' and current political analyst for MSNBC.
Early life
Blow was born and raised in Gibsland, Louisiana. He was educated ...
, ''Fire Shut Up in My Bones''
* Livia Ellis, ''Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus''
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Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a British actor. His London stage appearances include ''Hamlet'', the Maniac in ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in '' Bent'', The National Theatre o ...
, ''Not My Father’s Son''
Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year
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Bisexual Resource Center
The Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that has served the bisexual community since 1985. Originally known as The East Coast Bisexual Network, it incorporated ...
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Circlet Press
Circlet Press is a publishing house in Cambridge, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It was founded by Cecilia Tan, who is also its manager. It specializes in science fiction erotica, a once uncommon genre, and its publications often feature BDS ...
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Cleis Press
Cleis Press is an American independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It later moved to S ...
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Riverdale Avenue Books
Riverdale Avenue Books, located in Riverdale, Bronx, New York, is a publisher of e-books, print books on demand and audiobooks founded in 2012 by Lori Perkins. Riverdale is a member of the American Association of Publishers and publishes between 5 ...
Anna North
Anna North is a writer, editor, and reporter who is currently a senior reporter at '' Vox'' specializing in covering gender-related issues.
Life
Anna North grew up in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Before entering writ ...
, ''The Life and Death of Sophie Stark''
Non-Fiction
* Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, ''Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality''
* Surya Monro, ''Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories''
* Jillian Deri, ''Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships''
Memoir/Biography
* Kate Evans, ''Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel''
* Chelsey Clammer, ''BodyHome''
* Emily Bingham, ''Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of
Henrietta Bingham
Henrietta Bingham (January 3, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was a wealthy American journalist, newspaper executive and horse breeder. When she was twelve, she was present when her mother was killed in a road accident which traumatized the whole famil ...
Amy Jo Cousins
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''.
People A–E
* Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress
* Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–19 ...
Jennifer Perrine
Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to:
People
*Jennifer (given name)
* Jenifer (singer), French pop singer
* Jennifer Warnes, American singer who formerly used the stage name Jennifer
* Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
* Daniel Jenifer
Film and televi ...
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet.
Background
Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been ...
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...
2017
Fiction
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Susan Wittig Albert
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State Univ ...
, ''Loving Eleanor''
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Georgia Clark
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
, ''The Regulars''
* Erin Judge, ''Vow of Celibacy''
Mark McCormack
Mark Hume McCormack (November 6, 1930 – May 16, 2003) was an American lawyer, sports agent and writer. He was the founder and chairman of International Management Group, now IMG, an international management organization serving sports ...
, ''The Changing Dynamics of Bisexual Men's Lives: Social Research Perspectives''
* Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, ''Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women''
Ira Nadel
Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especi ...
Foz Meadows
Foz Meadows is an Australian fantasy novelist, blogger and poet.
Work
An essayist, blogger and reviewer, Meadows has written for ''The Mary Sue'', ''Apex Magazine'', '' Black Gate'', ''The Huffington Post'', ''A Dribble of Ink'', ''Strange Hori ...
Dreamspinner Press
Dreamspinner Press is a Tallahassee, Florida based LGBTQ publisher. Dreamspinner Press is an independent publisher, specializing in gay romantic fiction with print, eBook, and audiobook releases, and titles translated in French, German, Italia ...
Jennifer Natalya Fink
Jennifer Natalya Fink is an American author working in experimental feminist and queer fiction. She is best known for her novels ''Burn'', ''V,'' and ''The Mikvah Queen,'' which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Her novel, ''Bhopal D ...
* Michael Amherst, ''Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality, and Desire''
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Sophie Lucido Johnson
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise".
People with the name Born in the Middle Ages
* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of ...
, ''Many Love''
Memoir/Biography
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Sophie Lucido Johnson
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise".
People with the name Born in the Middle Ages
* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of ...
, ''Many Love''
* Charlie Harmon, ''On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein''
Romance
* Felicia Davin, ''Edge of Nowhere''
* Lilah Suzanne, ''Jilted''
* Layla Reyne, ''Medley (Changing Lanes)''
* Nem Rowan, ''Rough Sleepers''
* Michele Engardt, ''The Thing About Forever''
* L.A. Witt, ''The Torches We Carry''
* Jeanne G'Fellers, ''Cleaning House''
* Megan Derr, ''Dragon Magic''
* William C. Tracy, ''The Seeds of Dissolution''
* Felicia Davin, ''Etymon Press''
* J.R. Mabry, ''The Worship of Mystery''
Teen/YA Fiction
* Gene Gant, ''A Love Song for Mr. Dakota''
* J.E. Sumerau, ''Palmetto Rose''
* Lisa Walker, ''Paris Syndrome''
* Cat Clarke, ''We Are Young''
* Mia Kerick, ''The Weekend Bucket List''
Mystery
* Alexandra CH Nowakowski and JE Sumerau, ''Other People's Oysters''
* Cari Z & L.A. Witt, ''Reckless Behavior''
* Cat Clarke, ''We Are Young''
* Kristen Lepionka, ''What You Want to See''
* Rosalie Knecht, ''Who Is Vera Kelly?''
Poetry
* Britteney Black Rose Kapri, ''Black Queer Hoe''
* Diana Hamilton, ''God Was Right''
* Jan Steckel, ''Like Flesh Covers Bone''
* Julian Randall, ''Refuse''
* Duy Doan, ''We Play a Game''