Julia Watts is an American

United States

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 author of novels, short stories, etc., especially in the genres of young adult fiction and lesbian fiction/erotica.
Her novels include Finding H.F.

Finding H.F.

Finding H.F. is a 2001 young adult novel by Julia Watts, published by Alyson Books. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult fiction that same year...

 for which she won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

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 in the children/young adult category. She was nominated again for the 2005 award in the erotica category as one of the authors of the story collection Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians. Women's Studies was a finalist for a Golden Crown Literary Society

Golden Crown Literary Society

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 award. Her recent young adult novel, Kindred Spirits, is for the emerging press Beanpole Books.
In addition to her fiction work, Watts recently co-edited an anthology of essays, memoirs and stories on the sensitive topic of menstruation

Menstruation

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 titled Women. Period..

Ms. Watts currently resides in Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

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, where she teaches at South College

South College

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She holds a masters in fine arts, which she obtained from Spalding University

Spalding University

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Novels

• Wildwood Flowers (1996)
• Phases Of The Moon (1997)
• Piece of my Heart (1998)
• Wedding Bell Blues (1999)
• Mixed Blessings
• Finding H.F.
  Finding H.F.
  Finding H.F. is a 2001 young adult novel by Julia Watts, published by Alyson Books. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult fiction that same year...
  
   (2001) -- Winner Lambda Literary Award
  Lambda Literary Award
  Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
  
  
• Women's Studies (novel)|Women's Studies (2006)
• The Kind of Girl I Am (Novel) (2008)

Miranda Jasper Series (Young Adult)

• Kindred Spirits (novel)|Kindred Spirits (2008)
• Free Spirits (novel)|Free Spirits (2009)

Other Writings

• Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians (2004) Novella "Le Belle Rose"
• Bell, Book and Dyke: New Exploits of Magical Lesbians (2005) Novella "Skyclad"
• Stake through the Heart: New Exploits of Twilight Lesbians (2006) Novella "We Recruit"
• Tall in the Saddle: New Exploits of Western Lesbians (2007) Novella "The Sweetheart and the Spitfire"
• Women. Period. (editor with Parneshia Jones, Jo Ruby and Elizabeth Slade) (2008)

External links

• Brief capsule biography