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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] She is Jewish.[5]
Judith Frank | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Cornell University (MFA, PhD) |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know |
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager.[6] She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her B.A. and Cornell University for her MFA and PhD.[2] She joined Amherst College as a professor of English and creative writing in 1988.[6][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.
- Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor (1997)
- Crybaby Butch (2004)
- All I Love and Know (2014)
- 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]
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