Judith Frank is an American writer and professor. She has been a two-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, winning in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the

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in 2005 for her novel ''Crybaby Butch'', and being a shortlisted nominee in the

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category at the

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in 2015 for ''All I Love and Know''."The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists"
Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015. She is Jewish. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager."My Life: Judith Frank, Professor of English"
'' Amherst Magazine'', Spring 2009. She was educated at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

for her B.A. and Cornell University for her MFA and PhD. She joined

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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''. Frank is currently working as a middle-grade mathematics and social studies teacher in New Jersey.

Works

*''Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor'' (1997) *''Crybaby Butch'' (2004) *''All I Love and Know'' (2014)

Awards

* 2000: Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Award for fiction from the Astraea Foundation * 2005: Lambda Literary Award for ''Crybaby Butch'' * 2006: Yaddo artists' colony residency * 2008: National Endowment for the Arts fellowship * 2012: MacDowell Colony residency

References

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