Bounteous beauties & literary achievers

Triangle finalists

Author Katherine V. Forrest is the 2008 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of a legendary editor of the 1970s and 80s. Forrest has written 15 works of fiction, including her eight-volume Kate Delafield mystery series, and has worked for more two decades as a publisher; she was senior editor at Naiad Press for 10 years, and is currently supervising editor at Spinsters Ink.

The Judy Grahn Award, honoring the American writer, cultural theorist and activist, recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year affecting lesbian lives. Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Amy Hoffman, An Army of Ex-Lovers (University of Massachusetts Press); Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press); Sharon Marcus, Between Women (Princeton University Press).

The Randy Shilts Award honors the journalist who did groundbreaking work on the AIDS epidemic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Finalists for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Martin Duberman , The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Alfred A. Knopf); Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons (Cormorant Books); Michael S. Sherry , Gay Artists in Modern American Culture (University of North Carolina Press).

The Audre Lorde Award honors the American poet, essayist, librarian, and teacher. Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Joan Larkin, My Body (Hanging Loose Press); Eileen Myles, Sorry, Tree (Wave Books); Jennifer Perrine, The Body Is No Machine (New Issues).

The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry honors the British poet who lived in San Francisco for much of his life. Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar Straus Giroux); Steve Fellner , Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press); Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (University of Chicago Press).

The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction is named in honor of the esteemed novelist and man of letters. Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: James Canon, Tales from the Town of Widows (Harper Perennial); Myriam Gurba , Dahlia Season (Manic D Press); Bob Smith, Selfish and Perverse (Carroll & Graf).

The Ferro-Grumley Awards honor the memory of authors Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley, life partners who died of AIDS within weeks of each other. Finalists for the Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction: Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Peter Cameron , Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Felicia Luna Lemus, Like Son (Akashic Books); Ali Liebegott , The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf); Brian Malloy, Brendan Wolf (St. Martin's Press); Armistead Maupin, Michael Tolliver Lives (HarperCollins); Sarah Schulman , The Child (Carroll & Graf).

Bounteous beauties & literary achievers
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