Previous Lammy Award Winners

2008 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

BISEXUAL

Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press

• Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love & Desire,
  Lisa M. Diamond, Harvard University Press
• The Bishop's Daughter, Honor Moore, W.W. Norton
• Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey, Ron Jackson Suresha, Taylor & Francis Journals
• Rimbaud, Edmund White, Atlas & Company

TRANSGENDER

Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press

• 10,000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray, Seven Stories Press
• Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
• Boy with Flowers, Ely Shipley, Barrow Street Press
  
• Transgender History, Susan Stryker, Seal Press

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, Duke University Press

• A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction, Peter Burton, Arcadia Books
• Live Through This, edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev, Seven Stories Press
• Love, West Hollywood, edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, Alyson
• Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing, edited by Raphael Kadushin, University of Wisconsin Press

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg, Dutton

• Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel, Christian Burch, Simon and Schuster
• How They Met & Other Stories, David Levithan, Knopf Children's Books
• Mousetraps, Pat Schmatz, Carolrhoda Books
• What They Always Tell Us, Martin Wilson, Random House Children's Books
• Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Ellen Wittlinger, Simon and Schuster

LGBT DRAMA

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Outskirts Press

• Phi Alpha Gamma, Dan Bernitt, Sawyer House
• Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays, Martin Duberman, The New Press
• Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
• Vile Affections, Vanda, Original Works Publishing

LGBT NONFICTION

Loving The Difficult, Jane Rule, Hedgerow Press

• Me as Her Again, Nancy Agabian, Aunt Lute Books
• If I Could Write This in Fire, Michelle Cliff, Univ of Minnesota Press
• Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003, William N. Eskridge Jr, Penguin Group
• Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage, Nancy Polikoff, Beacon Press
• Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, Beacon Press

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling, Blind Eye Books

• The Archer's Heart, Astrid Amara, Blind Eye Books
• The Magician and the Fool, Barth Anderson, Bantam Del Rey
• Wilde Stories 2008, Steve Berman, Lethe Press
• Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories, Craig Gidney, Lethe Press

LGBT STUDIES

Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel, The University of Chicago Press

• Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History, Michelle Ann Abate, Temple University Press
• The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, Amin Ghaziani, The University of Chicago Press
• Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & & the Politics of Progressive Reform, Kevin P. Murphy, Columbia University Press
• Screening Sex, Linda Williams, Duke University Press

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press

• Red Audrey & the Roping, Jill Malone, Bywater Books
• Passing for Black, Linda Villarosa, Kensington
• Closer to Fine, Meri Weiss, Kensington
• Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, Chavisa Woods, Fly by Night Press

LESBIAN EROTICA

In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip, Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, Bold Strokes Books

• Lipstick on Her Collar, Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Pretty Things Press
• Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Lynne Jamneck, Lethe Press

LESBIAN FICTION (a tie!)

The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press

• The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyote, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Map of Ireland, Stephanie Grant, Scribner
• Breaking Spirit Bridge, Ruth Perkinson, Spinsters Ink

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir, Maureen Seaton, University of Wisconsin Press

• Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, Susan Griffin,
  Shambhala Publications
• Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press
• Sex Variant Woman, Joanne Passet, Da Capo
• Case of a Lifetime, Abbe Smith, Palgrave Macmillan

LESBIAN MYSTERY

Whacked, Josie Gordon, Bella Books

• Blind Faith, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Bold Strokes Books
• Sweet Poison, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press
• Losers Weepers, Jessica Thomas, Bella Books
• Calling the Dead, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books

LESBIAN POETRY

love belongs to those who do the feeling, Judy Grahn, Red Hen Press

• Interpretive Work, Elizabeth Bradfield, Arktoi / Red Hen Press
• Kissing Dead Girls, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press
• Same Life, Maureen N. McLane, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Two Minutes of Light, Nancy K. Pearson, Perugia Press

LESBIAN ROMANCE

The Kiss That Counted, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books

• Finding Home, Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books
• A Pirate's Heart, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books
• Hotel Liaison, JLee Meyer, Bold Strokes Books
• The Lonely Hearts Club, Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books

GAY DEBUT FICTION

Finlater, Shawn Stewart Ruff, Quote Editions

• Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Light Fell, Evan Fallenberg, Soho Press
• The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second, Drew Ferguson, Kensington
• The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom, Coach House Books

GAY EROTICA

Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press

• The Secret Tunnel, James Lear, Cleis Press
• Hard Working Men, William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie, MLR Press

GAY FICTION

We Disappear, Scott Heim, Harper Perennial

• Stray Dog Winter, David Francis, Macadam/Cage Publishing
• The Torturer's Wife, Thomas Glave, City Light Publishers
• The Conversion, Joseph Olshan, St. Martin’s Press
• The Boomerang Kid, Jay Quinn, Alyson

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Edward Carpenter:  A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books

• Bringing Him Home, Aaron Cooper, Late August Press
• Swish, Joel Derfner, Broadway Books
• Assisted Loving, Bob Morris, Harper
• King of Shadows, Aaron Shurin, City Lights Publishers

GAY MYSTERY

First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books

• The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable, Poisoned Pen Press
• Sundowner Ubuntu, Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
• Mahu Fire, Neil Plakcy, Alyson Books
• Spider Season, John Morgan Wilson, St. Martin's Press

GAY POETRY (a tie!)

Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, Harper
Now You're the Enemy, James Allen Hall, Univ. of Arkansas Press

• Want, Rick Barot, Sarabande Press
• Please, Jericho Brown, New Issues
• My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Wesleyan University Press

GAY ROMANCE

Got 'til it's Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press

• Mexican Heat, Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon, MLR Press
• The Protector, N.L. Gassert, Seventh Window Publications

2009 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Finalists and winners for books published during 2009 will be announced in May 2010.

2010 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Finalists and winners for books published during 2010 will be announced in May 2011.