Katherine V. Forrest's career will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming 20th annual Publishing Triangle Awards. Forrest has written 15 works of fiction, including the successful mystery series based on the character Kate Delafield. The latest in the series, Hancock Park, won the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery in 2004, following two earlier volumes of the series. The next year she won the Lambda for science fiction/fantasy for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk. Forrest has also worked as the senior publisher at Naiad Press.
Winners in six categories will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will be presented on April 28 in New York City. The finalists are:
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 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 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
Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Steve Fellner, Blind Date With Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press)
Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (The University of Chicago Press)
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 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)
