Julia Watts is an American fiction writer. Career Julia Watts is the author of novels, short stories, etc., especially in the genres of young adult fiction and lesbian fiction/erotica. Her novels include Finding H.F. for which she won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award 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 award. Her young adult novel, Kindred Spirits, is for the emerging press Beanpole Books. Her 2018 novel, Quiver was awarded a Perfect Tens Award by VOYA and the Fall 2018 OKRA Pick by Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. In addition to her fiction work, Watts recently co-edited an anthology of essays, memoirs and stories on the sensitive topic of menstruation titled Women. Period. Watts holds a masters in fine arts, which she obtained from Spalding University. Watts resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she teaches at South College. Bibliography Novels Wildwood Flowers (1996) Phases Of The Moon (1997) Piece of my Heart (1998) Wedding Bell Blues (1999) Mixed Blessings Finding H.F. (2001) -- Winner Lambda Literary Award Women's Studies (novel)|Women's Studies (2006) The Kind of Girl I Am (Novel) (2008)Secret City (2013) -- Nominated Lambda Literary AwardHypnotizing Chickens (2014)Quiver (2018)Needlework (2021) Miranda Jasper Series (Young Adult)Kindred Spirits (2008)Free Spirits (2009)Revived Spirits (2011) Other writingsOnce 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) References External links Brief capsule biography 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American women short story writers Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners Living people People from Knoxville, Tennessee Year of birth missing (living people) American lesbian writers American LGBT novelists Spalding University alumni 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers