Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions. Peter Lang Us. January 17, 2018. We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art. Indie Blu(e) Publishing. November 27, 2018. No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History. Charlesbridge Publishing September 22, 2020. Awards Leslea Newman's literary awards include Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the James Baldwin award for Cultural Achievement, the Dog Writers Association of America's Best Book of Fiction Award, and a Parents' Choice Silver Medal. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. In 2009 she received the Alice B. Award. Her set of children's picture books Mommy, Mama, and Me and Daddy, Papa and Me were 2010 Stonewall Honor Books as well as her 2013 October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepherd. In 2019, she received a National Jewish Book Award for Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story. She was the inaugural judge of the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize. See also Fat Chance LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City References Further reading Day, Frances Ann (2000). Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults. Greenwood Press. pp. 188–190. . External links Lesléa Newman American children's writers Jewish American writers American lesbian writers LGBT Jews 1955 births Living people American women children's writers Jewish women writers American women editors Writers from Brooklyn LGBT people from New York (state) 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women