Seven finalists for the prestigious Lambda Literary Awards will read from their nominated work: Michael Gregg Michaud (author of Sal Mineo), Michael Klein (author of then, we were still living, Chris Corkum (author of XOXO Hayden), Stuart Biegel (author of The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools), Jallen Rix (author of Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse), and Audrey Bilger and Leigh Stuart (contributors to Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women).
The Lambda Literary Foundation nurtures, celebrates, and perserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers. The "Lammy" is the most prestigious, competitive, and comprehensive literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors.
Michael Gregg Michaud is the author of Sal Mineo, A Biography,
recently optioned for film by James Franco. His fiction and nonfiction
has appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, journals and
anthologies. His work as a photographer is represented by the Lora
Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica, California.
Michael Klein is a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and two-time winner for 1990 and Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS. He also authored two memoirs, Track Conditions and The End of Being Known, and teaches at Goddard College and at the Fine Arts Word Centerin Provincetown.
Chris Corkum was born and raised in a small town in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ad is enrolled in the creative writing MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte. He lives in Los Angeles and is at work on his second novel.
Jallen Rix grew up as a Southern Baptist, taught that spirituality was heavenly but sexuality was from the devil. Ex-Gay No Way is rooted in his experience trying to change from gay to straight in an ex-gay ministry. He is Associate Professor at San Francisco's Institute for Advanced Study of Sexuality, and writes the advice column "Sex Ed in Bed."
Essays written by Barbara Lodge, pen name Leigh Stuart, have appeared in The Sun Magazine, Whole Life Times Magazine, Armadillo Bay, Clever Magazine, and the upcoming anthology It's All in Her Head. She holds a B.A. in English, a Juris Doctor, and lives in Los Angeles with her two teenage children.
Audrey Bilger is the Faculty Director of the Writing Center, Associate Professor of Literature. She is the author of Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. She writes for Ms. magazine and Ms. blog online and is a regular contributor to Bitch magazine.
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