The Judy Grahn Award is an annual literary award, presented by

Publishing Triangle The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards pro ...

to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the lesbian community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American poet and cultural theorist

Judy Grahn Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940) is an American poet and author. Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, she became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influe ...

Winners

*1997 — Bernadette Brooten, ''Love Between Women'' *1998 —

Margot Peters Margot Peters (born May 13, 1933, died June 18, 2022) was an American novelist and biographer, including of Charlotte Brontë, George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Drews and Barrymores, May Sarton, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She w ...

, ''May Sarton: A Biography'' *1999 — Judith Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'' *2000 — Hilary Lapsley, ''Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women'' *2001 — Amber Hollibaugh, ''My Dangerous Desires'' *2002 — Laura L. Doan, ''Fashioning Sapphism'' *2003 —

Terry Wolverton Terry Wolverton (born 1954) is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her boo''Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building'' a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the "Best Books of 2002" by the Lo ...

, ''Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building'' *2004 —

Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940) is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards. ''The New York Times'' named three of her books on its "Notable Books of the Year" list. In add ...

, ''Naked in the Promised Land'' *2005 — Alison Smith, '' Name All the Animals'' *2006 — Tania Katan, ''My One-Night Stand with Cancer'' *2007 —

Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel ( ; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip ''Dykes to Watch Out For'', she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir ''Fun Home'', whi ...

, ''

Fun Home ''Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic'' is a 2006 Graphic novel, graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip ''Dykes to Watch Out For''. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, Uni ...

'' *2008 —

Janet Malcolm Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová; July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer, journalist on staff at ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and collagist. She was the author of '' Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession'' (19 ...

, ''Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice'' *2009 — Andrea Weiss, ''In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain'' *2010 — Rebecca Brown, ''American Romances'' *2011 — Barbara Hammer, ''Hammer!'' *2012 — Jeanne Córdova, ''When We Were Outlaws'' *2013 —

, '' Are You My Mother?'' *2014 — Julia M. Allen, ''Passionate Commitments: The Lives of

Anna Rochester Anna Rochester (March 30, 1880 — May 11, 1966) was an American labor reformer, journalist, political activist, and Communist. Although for several years an editor of the liberal monthly '' The World Tomorrow,'' Rochester is best remembered as a ...

and

Grace Hutchins Grace Hutchins (August 19, 1885 – July 15, 1969) was an American labor reformer and researcher, journalist, political activist and communist. She spent many years of her life writing about labor and economics, in addition to being a lifelong ded ...

'' *2015 —

Barbara Smith Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, a ...

, ''Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith'' *2016 — Marcia M. Gallo, ''“No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy'' *2017 —

Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI) and a Fellow a ...

, ''Conflict Is Not Abuse'' *2018 — Rosalind Rosenberg, ''Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray'' *2019 —

Imani Perry Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a columnis ...

, ''Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry'' *2020 — Carmen Maria Machado, ''In the Dream House'' and

Saidiya Hartman Saidiya Hartman (born ) is an American writer and academic focusing on African-American studies. She is currently a University Professor at Columbia University. Early life Hartman was born in and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a B. ...

, ''Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals'' *2021 —

Jenn Shapland Jenn Shapland is an American writer and archivist. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a Pushcart Prize in 2017, and her memoir, ''My Autobiography of Carson McCullers'', won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography, Lambda Literary ...

, ''My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir'' *2022 — Briona Simone Jones, ''Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought''"Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
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Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...

'', May 11, 2022.

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* Triangle Awards American non-fiction literary awards Awards established in 1997 LGBT literary awards {{lit-award-stub