The 28th Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBT fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2015, as well as the year's best trans and gender-variant literature, will be presented on April 21, 2016, in New York City.
Eloise Klein Healy is the 2016 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement . She is the author of eight books of poetry and three spoken word recordings, named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2012. She is the founding editor of Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press specializing in the work of lesbian authors. A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings is her latest book.
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature: The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf Press); Debridement , by Corrina Bain (Great Weather for Media); The Middle Notebookes, by Nathana'l (Nightboat Books); Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities , by Jackson Wright Schultz (Dartmouth College Press).
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction : Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Arsenal Pulp Press); The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle , by Lillian Faderman (Simon and Schuster); Honor Girl, by Maggie Thrash (Candlewick Press); No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy , by Marcia M. Gallo (Cornell University Press).
Finalists for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction : Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, by Barney Frank (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); A House in St. John's Wood: In Search of My Parents , by Matthew Spender (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality, by Michelangelo Signorile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS by Dale Peck (Soho Press)
Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry : Bodymap, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Mawenzi House/TSAR); Fanny Says , by Nickole Brown (BOA Editions); Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life, by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books); No Confession, No Mass , by Jennifer Perrine (University of Nebraska Press).
Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry : Boy with Thorn, by Rickey Laurentiis (University of Pittsburgh Press); Chord, by Rick Barot (Sarabande Books); Farther Traveler , by Ronaldo V. Wilson (Counterpath Press); The Spectral Wilderness, by Oliver Bendorf (Kent State University Press).
Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction : Blue Talk and Love, by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Riverdale Avenue Books); Bright Lines, by Tanwi Nandini Islam (Penguin Books); Hotel Living , by Ioannis Pappos (Harper Perennial); One Hundred Days of Rain, by Carellin Brooks (BookThug).
Finalists for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction : After the Parade, by Lori Ostlund (Scribner); JD, by Mark Merlis (Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press); A Little Life , by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday); A Poet of the Invisible World, by Michael Golding (Picador); Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Christopher Street magazine is the winner of the Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award. Since the magazine is defunct, the award will go to its founders and editors: Charles Ortleb was the publisher and first editor; Patrick Merla followed as editor; he in turn was succeeded by Tom Steele; Michael Denneny was top advisor.