Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle
2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography, pr
Bett Williams | The Wrestling Party | ‘When does desire turn into exploitation?’ Bett Williams asks, reflecting on a relationship she had with a seventeen-year-old girl when she was thirty
Allison Gruber | You’re Not Edith | If the autobiographical essays in You’re Not Edith are any indication, Allison Gruber has a surprisingly functional (not to mention intimate) relation
Claudia Brenner; Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets | From Publishers Weekly
On May 12, 1988, Claudia Brenner and her companion, Rebecca Wight, parked their car on Dead Woman’s Hollow Road before star
Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir | Lively first-person account of fourteen years in Israel by former Knesset member, feminist movement founder, early peace activist.
Makhosazana Xaba; Crystal Biruk | Proudly Malawian | This groundbreaking collection brings together the life stories of eleven lesbian, bisexual ad gender nonconforming Malawians. Told in the contributo
Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | The first full-length biography of the author of The Color Purple–an American icon praised and pilloried for her art and activism. Born to a share
Nicole J. Georges | Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole Georges’ second book is, like her first book Calling Doctor Laura, a graphic novel and memoir. But it’s also a love story, dedicated not to ano
Barrie Jean Borich | Apocalypse, Darling | Barrie Jean Borich’s Apocalypse, Darling is a lyrical memoir that reads like a long-form narrative poem, wrought with long, sweeping sentences and dre
Mary Cappello | Called Back | “Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to make it new’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books ha