About
Sandra Gail Lambert writing is often about the disabled body and its relationship to the natural world. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning My Withered Legs and Other Essays, the Lambda-Literary Award and Krause Essay Prize finalist memoir A Certain Loneliness, and two novels—The River's Memory and The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Sun, Orion, The Millions, Narratively, and The Paris Review. She is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow. She writes a Substack newsletter. www.sandragaillambert.com
Featured Work
My Withered Legs and Other Essays
In this winner of the Lambda Literary Award, a seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with writing that celebrates lesbian love and queer community, explores the slapstick moments of life, and shares the obstacles and triumphs of becoming a writer later in life.
Other Works
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The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller
2023
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A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir
2018
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Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Struggle, Sandra Gail Lambert and Sarah Einstein Eds.
2017
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The River's Memory
2014
Awards and Recognition
- NEA Creative Writing Fellow
- 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography—My Withered Legs and Other Essays
- The 2025 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist—My Withered Legs and Other Essays
- 2018 Lambda Literary Award Finalist—A Certain Loneliness
- 2018 Krause Essay Prize finalist—A Certain Loneliness
