Nothing Is Wasted, Only Reproduced

The fourth annual Bisexual Book Awards were announced earlier this week--yes, there is such a thing--and No Confession, No Mass was named the winner in the poetry category! Although I've taught classes on how books or other texts represent sexuality, it's still sometimes strangely a surprise when my own work does that. It's rare that I've gone into a poem or a story overtly thinking, "Aha! Now it's time to write something really queer!" And yet, queer politics and experience inform everything I do, and it's delightful when other people recognize that.

I'm grateful to Sheela Lambert, who organizes the awards and, as such, gives greater visibility to bisexual writers and books with bisexual themes and characters. And I'm pleased to have my book counted in such good company. This year's other winners are:
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Call It Wonder: an odyssey of love, sex, spirit, and travel by Kate Evans
Dead Ringer by Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler
Ariah by B.R. Sanders
Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Bound with Honor by Megan Mulry

Congrats to everyone!