Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Sea And Fog by Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan | Sea And Fog | These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosop

Posted in Award Winner History

Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers | From Library Journal

Faderman charts the evolution of the concept of the ‘lesbian’ as a 20th-century social construct and shows how love between w

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ | The Female Man | The Female Man is a classic feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ, published in 1975. Four women, Joanna, Jeannine, Janet and

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Grier Rated

La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Here Today by Ann M. Martin

Ann M. Martin | Here Today |

‘In 1963, Ellie’s mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti’s supermarket, President John F. Kennedy was assassina

Posted in Award Winner LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Joining the Tribe by Linnea A. Due

Linnea A. Due | Joining the Tribe | Like a lot of fortysomething gay men and lesbians, including me, Linnea Due thought that the post-Stonewall culture, full of queer parades, films, and

Posted in Award Winner Entertainment Lesbian Studies

Eden Built by Eves by Bonnie J. Morris

Bonnie J. Morris | Eden Built by Eves | Longtime festival enthusiast Bonnie J. Morris offers a thorough, if somewhat breathless, survey of the 25-year history of women’s music festivals, dra

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee | Disgrace | After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair wi

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Tea by Stacey D’Erasmo

Stacey D’Erasmo | Tea | Stacey D’Erasmo will be a familiar name to anyone who reads the Village Voice. During the years she worked at that quintessential alternative w

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Award Winner

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in t