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)