The authors, book titles, and nomination category are: Lesley Gowen, The Collectors, Lesbian Erotica; Karleen Pendleton Jimenez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant, Lesbian Memoir/Biography; Martha Miller, Retirement Plan, Lesbian Mystery; Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me, Gay Debut Fiction; L.A. Witt; Static, transgender fiction and LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; and David Trinidad, nominated in the Gay Poetry category as the author of Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems and in the same category as editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos. Our special guest at the event will be Judith Markowitz, national co-president of the Lambda Literary Foundation