Jeanne Thornton

Jeanne Thornton (born 1983)[1] is an American writer and copublisher of Instar Books and Rocksalt Magazine. She has received the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers.[2] Anthologies to which she has contributed to have won a Lambda Literary Award[3] and a Barbara Gittings Literature Award.[4] Works she has written and edited have been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards for Debut Fiction, Transgender Fiction,[2] and Graphic Novel.[5] Her 2021 novel Summer Fun is a one-sided epistolary novel consisting of letters from a transgender woman in New Mexico to a fictional musician based on Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys;[6][7] it won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.[8]

  1. ^ Young, Royal (2012-10-12). "Jeanne Thornton's Cult Heroine". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  2. ^ a b "Jeanne Thornton and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Named Winners of the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers". Lambda Literary. 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  3. ^ "Transcendent 2". Lethe Press. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  4. ^ Boureau, Ella (2018-03-06). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  5. ^ "Previous Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  6. ^ Manning, Corinne (July 2021). "The Sound of America: Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  7. ^ Rudolph, Christopher (30 July 2021). "The Psychedelic "Summer Fun" Book About Trans Life in a Tiny Desert Town". NewNowNext. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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