22nd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners 2009

The 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists

The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

2009 Categories:
Overview of the categories by year

• Lesbian
•  Debut Fiction, Erotica, Fiction, Memoir/Biography, Mystery,  Poetry, Romance
• Bisexual
•  Fiction, Non-fiction
• General LGBT
•  Anthology, Children's/ Young Adult, Drama, Non-fiction, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, LGBT Studies
• Gay Men's
•  Debut Fiction, Erotica, Fiction, Memoir/Biography, Mystery,  Poetry, Romance
• Transgender

Lesbian Debut Fiction:

• Winner The Creamsickle, by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink)
• Finalists
• The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press)
• Land Beyond Maps, by Maida Tilchen (Savvy Press)
• More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson (Harper Perennial) [Literature winner, Stonewall Awards 2011]
• Verge, by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)

Lesbian Erotica:

• Winner Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures, edited by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia (Cleis Press)
• Finalists
• Flesh and Bone, by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes Books)
• Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)
• Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, by D.L. King (Cleis Press)
• Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica, Edited by Cecilia Tan (Alyson Books)

Lesbian Fiction:

• Winner A Field Guide to Deception, by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)
• Finalists
• Dismantled, by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins)
• Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press)
• Risk, by Elana Dykewomon (Bywater Books)
• This One’s Going to Last Forever, by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press)

Lesbian Memoir/Biography:

• Winner The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin's Press)
• Finalists
• Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, by Mary Cappello (Alyson Books)
• Mean Little deaf Queer, by Terry Galloway (Beacon Press)
• My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, by Alix Dobkin (Alyson Books)
• Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, by Ariel Schrag (Touchstone)

Lesbian Mystery:

• Winner Death of a Dying Man, by Jean M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
• Finalists
• Command of Silence, by Paulette Callen (Spinsters Ink)
• From Hell to Breakfast, by Joan Opyr (Blue Feather Books)
• The Mirror and the Mask, by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s/Minotaur)
• Toasted, by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)

Lesbian Poetry:

• Winner Zero at the Bone, by Stacie Cassarino (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
• Finalists
• Bird Eating Bird, by Kristin Naca (HarperCollins)
• Gospel: Poems, by Samiya Bashir (Red Bone Press)
• Names: Poems, by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton)
• Stars of the Night Commute, by Ana Božičević (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

Lesbian Romance:

• Winner The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, by Colette Moody (Bold Strokes Books)
• Finalists
• It Should Be a Crime, by Carsen Taite (Bold Strokes Books)
• No Rules of Engagement, by Tracey Richardson (Bella Books)
• Stepping Stone, by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Worth Every Step, by KG MacGregor (Bella Books)

Bisexual Fiction:

• Winners (tie) 

• Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia)
• Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press) 
• Finalists
• Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink) 
• The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press)
• Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press)

Bisexual Nonfiction:

• Winner Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Finalists
• Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien (W. W. Norton)
• Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf) 
• Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com) 
• Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin’s Press)

LGBT Anthology:

• Winner Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore (Lit Star Press)
• Finalists
• Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, edited by David Bergman (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights, edited by Gilbert Herdt (NYU Press)
• My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca (City Lights)

LGBT Children's/Young Adult:

• Winner Sprout, by Dale Peck (Bloomsbury USA)
• Finalists
• Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown) [Reviewed here] [Shortlisted for Best Novel, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2010]
• How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart (HarperCollins)
• In Mike We Trust, by P.E. Ryan (HarperCollins)
• The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd (Penguin Books)

LGBT Drama: 

• Winner The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley, by Mart Crowley (Alyson Books)
• Finalists
• The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman (Dramatists Play Service)
• Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor, by Bonnie J. Morris (Indiana University Press)

LGBT Non-Fiction:

• Winner The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World, by James Davidson (Random House)
• Finalists
• The Golden Age of Gay Fiction, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)
• I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press)
• Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, by Sarah Schulman (The New Press)
• Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank (St. Martin’s Press) [Non-fiction winner, Stonewall Awards 2010]

LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror: 

• Winner Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra) [Shortlisted for Best Novel, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2010]
• Finalists
• Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press) [Shortlisted for Best Novel, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2010]
• Fist of the Spider Woman, by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• In the Closet, Under the Bed, by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
• Pumpkin Teeth, by Tom Cardamone (Lethe Press)

LGBT Studies:

• Winner The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, by Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)
• Finalists
• Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities, by Julie Abraham (University of Minnesota Press)
• Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS, by Deborah B. Gould (University of Chicago Press)
• The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Duke University Press)
• The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade, by Armando Maggi (University of Chicago Press)

Gay Debut Fiction:

• Winner Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal (Kensington Books)
• Finalists
• God Says No, by James Hannaham (McSweeneys)
• Pop Salvation, by Lance Reynald (HarperCollins)
• Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, by G. Winston James (Top Pen Press)
• Sugarless, by James Magruder (University of Wisconsin Press)

Gay Erotica:

• Winner Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian (City Lights)
• Finalists
• Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory (Bold Strokes Books) 
• I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire, edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• The Low Road, by James Lear (Cleis Press)
• Eight Inches, by Sean Wolfe (Kensington Books)

Gay Fiction:

• Winner Lake Overturn, by Vestal McIntyre (HarperCollins)
• Finalists
• The River In Winter, by Matt Dean (Queens English Productions)
• Said and Done, by James Morrison (Black Lawrence Press)
• Salvation Army, by Abdellah Taia (Semiotext(e))
• Silver Lake, by Peter Gadol (Tyrus Books)

Gay Memoir/Biography:

• Winner Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back, by Reynolds Price (Scribner Books)
• Finalists
• City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, by Edmund White (Bloomsbury USA) 
• Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, by Jon Ginoli (Cleis Press)
• Once You Go Back, by Douglas A. Martin (Seven Stories Press) 
• The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief, by David Plante (Beacon Press)

Gay Mystery: 

• Winner What We Remember, by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington Books) 
• Finalists
• All Lost Things, by Josh Aterovis (P.D. Publishing)
• Killer of Orchids, by Ralph Ashworth (State Street Press)
• Murder in the Garden District, by Greg Herren (Alyson Books)
• Straight Lies, by Rob Byrnes (Kensington Books)

Gay Poetry: 

• Winner Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press) 
• Finalists
• Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press)
• The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press)
• The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press)
• What the Right Hand Knows, by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)

Gay Romance: 

• Winner Drama Queers!, by Frank Anthony Polito (Kensington Books)
• Finalists
• A Keen Edge, by H. Leigh Aubrey (iUniverse)
• The Rest of Our Lives, by Dan Stone (Lethe Press)
• Time After Time, by J.P. Bowie (MLR Press)
• Transgressions: An M/M Romance, by Erastes (Running Press)

Transgender:

• Winner Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show, by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D Press)
• Finalists
• Bharat Jiva, by Kari Edwards (Litmus Press)
• The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, by S. Bear Bergman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Transmigration, by Joy Ladin (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Troglodyte Rose, by Adam Lowe (Cadaverine Publications)

The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

• Overview of all yearly Lambda Award categories 
• The Lesbian Book Awards Page 
• The Stonewall Book Awards
• The Alice B Readers award  
• The GLAAD Media Awards