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Jeanne Thornton (born 1983) is an American writer and copublisher of Instar Books and Rocksalt Magazine. She has received the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Anthologies to which she has contributed to have won a Lambda Literary Award and a Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Works she has written and edited have been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards for Debut Fiction, Transgender Fiction, and Graphic Novel. 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; it won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.

Biography

Thornton is a transgender woman. She lived in Austin, Texas from 2011 to 2014.

Awards

Bibliography

Writer

• Summer Fun (2021)
• The Black Emerald (2014)
• The Dream of Doctor Bantam (2012)

Editor

• We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology (2018)

Contributor

• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (2017)
• Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 (2017)
• Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016 (2016)
• Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads (2014)
• Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York (2014)

References

1. Young, Royal (2012-10-12). "Jeanne Thornton's Cult Heroine". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
2. ^ "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.
8. ^ Schaub, Michael (13 June 2022). "Lambda Literary Award Winners Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
9. ^ glambourine (2012-12-17). "I am Jeanne Thornton, a transgendered author living in Austin, Texas. I just published a novel with O/R Books about a youthful lesbian relationship doomed by what's essentially the Church of Scientology. I also draw comics. AMA". Reddit - Ask Me Anything. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
10. "The Rumpus Interview with Jeanne Thornton". The Rumpus.net. 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
11. Spencer, Ryan (27 July 2021). "Retelling an American Legend: Jeanne Thornton Interviewed by Ryan Spencer". BOMB. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
12. "Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. October 25, 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-22.

External links

• Instar Books
• Official website

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