Jeanne Thornton (born 1983) is an American writer and copublisher of Instar Books and Rocksalt Magazine. She has received the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Anthologies to which she has contributed to have won a

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...

and a Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Works she has written and edited have been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards for Debut Fiction, Transgender Fiction, and

Graphic Novel A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...

. Her 2021 novel ''Summer Fun'' is a one-sided

epistolary novel An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered ...

consisting of letters from a

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New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...

to a fictional musician based on Brian Wilson of

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; it won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.

Biography

Thornton is a

. She lived in

Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

from 2011 to 2014.

Awards

Bibliography

Writer

* ''Summer Fun'' (2021) * ''The Black Emerald'' (2014) * ''The Dream of Doctor Bantam'' (2012)

Editor

* ''We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology'' (2018)

Contributor

* ''Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers'' (2017) * ''Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016'' (2017) * ''Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016'' (2016) * ''Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads'' (2014) * ''Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York'' (2014)

References

External links

Instar Books

Official website
1983 births American women novelists Living people 21st-century American novelists Writers from Texas People from Austin, Texas 21st-century American women writers Writers from Michigan People from Muskegon, Michigan American transgender writers {{US-novelist-1980s-stub