Judith Frank is an American writer and professor. She has been a two-time

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nominee, winning in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the

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in 2005 for her novel ''Crybaby Butch'', and being a shortlisted nominee in the

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category at the

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in 2015 for ''All I Love and Know''."The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists"

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, March 4, 2015. She is Jewish. Originally from Evanston,

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, Frank spent some time living in

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as a teenager."My Life: Judith Frank, Professor of English"
'' Amherst Magazine'', Spring 2009. She was educated at the

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for her B.A. and

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for her MFA and PhD. She joined

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as a professor of English and creative writing in 1988. She has also published short stories in ''

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'', '' Other Voices'' and ''Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005'', as well as the critical study ''Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor''.

Works

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

Awards

* 2000: Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Award for fiction from the Astraea Foundation * 2005:

for ''Crybaby Butch'' * 2006: Yaddo artists' colony residency * 2008:

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fellowship * 2012:

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residency

References

External links

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