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New York/San Francisco, October 10, 2005—The Lambda
Literary Foundation announced today that Charles
Flowers will serve as its new executive director, effective October
15. The appointment comes after several months of reorganization
and extensive planning for the future by the Board of Directors.
"We are enormously excited about this appointment," said
Katherine V. Forrest, president of the Board. "We
feel fortunate indeed to have found an executive director
of this caliber to lead us into a new era for the Foundation. Charles
brings a depth of knowledge and immersion in our literature,
a wide range of experience in all facets of publishing,
a high energy presence, and a vision of the Foundation's
future that we fully share. Under his leadership
the Foundation will expand its role, becoming the dynamic
and highly visible service organization our entire literary
community deserves."
A fifteen year-plus veteran of publishing and arts administration,
Flowers has served as the co-chair of the Publishing Triangle,
the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing,
and since 2001 has been Associate Director of the Academy
of American Poets. He is the founding editor of Bloom,
a remarkable journal for lesbian and gay writing that Edmund
White has called “the most exciting new queer literary
publication to emerge in years.” As a book
editor he has worked with such authors as Urvashi Vaid,
E. Lynn Harris, Joan Larkin, Michelangelo Signorile, Sarah
Schulman, Andrew Holleran, Keith Boykin, Minnie Bruce Pratt,
and Stacey D’Erasmo, among many others. He
is the co-author of Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife (with
Harold Kooden, Ph.D.), and his poems have appeared in Gulf
Coast, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, and Puerto
del Sol. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt
University and received his M.F.A. in Poetry from the University
of Oregon.
“I am thrilled to be part of the Lambda team as
the Foundation enters its second decade,” Flowers
adds. “I value the work of Lambda and welcome its
goal of being a complete service organization for the entire
GLBTQ literary community—authors, editors, booksellers,
educators, librarians, and especially, the GLBTQ reader.”
Plans for the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards and a dynamic,
new website (to be launched in January) have already begun,
while the Foundation continues to review the viability
of two of its publications, Lambda Book Report and James
White Review. Flowers urges the literary community
to contact Lambda during its planning. “In the weeks
ahead, we will be sending a survey to our members as we
review our current programs and explore new initiatives,” Flowers
explained. “We value your opinions and feedback.
Let us hear from you.”
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Founded in 1996, Lambda Literary Foundation exists to
celebrate and enhance GLBTQ literature in all its dimensions.
The Lambda Literary Awards, the most visible expression
of its mission, recognize annually the most significant
books published in more than twenty categories, from fiction
to poetry to spiritual writing to best debut novel. Currently,
the Foundation is engaged in extensive planning for new
programs and initiatives.
To sign up for future updates from Lambda, please send
an email to subscribe-25607@en.groundspring.org.
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