noelle howey
Noelle Howey is the author of the memoir Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother's, My Father's and Mine (Picador USA/May 2002). In addition to receiving a starred review in Publishers' Weekly and rave reviews from major media like The San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Book World, The Guardian and The Advocate. Dress Codes was selected for the Good Morning America Read This! book club, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, Borders Original Voices, and the Booksense 76 list. It also won a Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association's Stonewall Honors award for nonfiction.
Currently deputy director of Real Simple Magazine, she is also the co-editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents (St. Martin's Press), which won two 2001 Lambda Literary Awards. She is currently working on a novel.
Her father underwent sex reassignment surgery when Noelle was a teenager and going though her own bumpy journey to womanhood. Noelle, who is the mother of a three-year-old, speaks on a range of issues including:
- The nature of girlhood
- What it means to "become" a woman
- Feminist family values
- Journalism through the lens of feminist and queer values
- Transgendered issues
- Queer families
- Motherhood and feminism
