Awards
She has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and in 2006 her fiction collection "Observers and Other Stories" was published by the Lesbian press Artemis Press.
Lerman is also the recipient of the inaugural Juniper Prize, the 2002 Joy Bale Boone Award for Poetry, the 2006 Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, and a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2007, she received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She lives on Long Island, in Nassau County.
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