Judith Frank

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
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Period2000s–present
Notable worksCrybaby 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.

Frank is currently working as a middle-grade mathematics and social studies teacher in New Jersey.

Works

  • Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor (1997)
  • Crybaby Butch (2004)
  • All I Love and Know (2014)

Awards

References

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