Kim Cosier, professor of art education and associate dean of the Peck School of the Arts, is one of the co-editors of a book that just won a national Stonewall Book Award.

The book, “Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality,” was published last year by the Milwaukee-based organization Rethinking Schools. It was designed as a manual for classroom teachers to help them talk about issues of identity around gender and sexuality.

The Stonewall Book Awards are sponsored by the American Library Association’s LGBT Roundtable, and are designed to honor books for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.

Cosier’s book was one of four chosen for the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, out of an estimated 400 entries. The Stonewall Book Awards, established in 1971, also honor fiction and young adult/children’s books.

The awards will be presented to winning authors and editors at the American Library Association’s annual conference in June in Chicago. Cosier was an editor of the book, working with five other co-editors.

Last year when the book debuted as a No. 1 pick on Amazon, Cosier said: “I really was excited about working on a book that would be more accessible to the average classroom teacher. They don’t have a place to go necessarily to ask those questions and to find some answers.”