Judith Frank
Judith Frank | |
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| Occupation | novelist, short stories |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2000s-present |
| Notable works | Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know |
Judith Frank is an American writer and professor.[1][2] 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,[3] and being a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Fiction category at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for All I Love and Know.[4]
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager.[5] She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her B.A. and Cornell University for her MFA and PhD.[2] Sheoined Amherst College as a professor of English and creative writing in 1988.[5][2]
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.
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[2]
- 2005: Lambda Literary Award for Crybaby Butch[2]
- 2006: Yaddo artists' colony residency[2]
- 2008: National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[2]
- 2012: MacDowell Colony residency[2]
References
- ^ "Catching Up With Judith Frank, Author of All I Love & Know". Out, August 8, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography In Context. Gale. 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ 17th Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 9, 2005.
- ^ "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
- ^ a b "My Life: Judith Frank, Professor of English". Amherst Magazine, Spring 2009.
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