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The judges had to make some hard choices among a strong field
of submissions, but a very worthy group of finalists has emerged for
this year's Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley Awards. These awards
are for books published in the United States or Canada in 2008. Here
are the winners and the other finalists.
FINALISTS
Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
WINNER! Kai Wright, Drifting
Toward Love (Beacon Press)
Linas Alsenas, Gay America (Amulet
Books / Abrams)
Bob Morris, Assisted Loving
(Harper)
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
WINNER! Andrea Weiss, In the
Shadow of the Magic Mountain (University of Chicago Press)
Regina Kunzel, Criminal
Intimacy (University of Chicago
Press)
Nancy D. Polikoff, Beyond (Straight
and Gay) Marriage (Beacon Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
WINNER! Evan
Fallenberg, Light Fell (Soho
Press)
Alistair McCartney, The End of the
World Book (University of
Wisconsin Press)
Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
(Quote Editions)
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
WINNER! Elizabeth
Bradfield, Interpretive Work
(Red Hen Press)
Maureen McLane, Same Life
(Farrar Straus Giroux)
Elaine Sexton, Causeway (New
Issues)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
WINNER!
Ely
Shipley, Boy
with Flowers (Barrow Street Press)
Jericho Brown, Please (New
Issues)
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
(Harper)
The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction
WINNER! Alison
Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to
Watch Out For (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt)
David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife
(Random House)
Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a
Marriage (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Blair Mastbaum, Us Ones in Between
(Running Press)
Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting
Even (Steerforth)
Ellen Wittlinger, Love & Lies (Simon
& Schuster Books for Young
Readers)
Also awarded:
The Publishing Triangle Leadership Award: Carole DeSanti
The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Martin Duberman
The winners for these awards were announced at our
annual
awards ceremony, held at the New School in Greenwich Village, New York,
on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
For a complete list of past Triangle Award winners, visit our awards
page. There you will also find information about special privileges
that Publishing Triangle members have in nominating books and authors
for these literary awards.
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