Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature

Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature
Awarded for	Bisexual Literature
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
Lambda Literary Award

The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with bisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry. ^[1] Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be bi-, homo-, hetero-, or asexual. ^[1]

Criteria

Bisexual fiction

The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities." ^[1] The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction." ^[1]

Bisexual nonfiction

The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader." ^[1]

Bisexual poetry

The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content. ^[1] Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." ^[1] If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category.

Bisexual/Transgender literature

In 2001, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.

Recipients

Winners and finalists of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature

Year	Category	Author	Work	Result	Ref.
2002	Bisexual/Transgender Literature	Virginia Ramey Mollenkott	Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach	Winner	[2]
		Sparrow L. Patterson	Synthetic Bi Products	Finalist	[2]
		Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors)	Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2
		Vanessa Sheridan	Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
		Jonathan Branton	Dragged!! To His Senses
2007	Bisexual Literature	Michael Szymanski and Nicole Kristal	The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe	Winner	[3]
		Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany (editors)	Bi Men	Finalist
		Ronald C. Fox	Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men
		Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio	Eros
		Ron Jackson Suresha (editor)	Bi Guys
		Clarence Nero	Three Sides to Every Story
2008	Bisexual Literature	Brent Hartinger	Split Screen	Winner	[4] [5]
		Jeff Hobbs	The Tourists	Finalist	[5]
		Beth Firestein (editor)	Becoming Visible
		Jennifer Baumgardner	Look Both Ways
		Sheri Joseph	Stray
2009	Bisexual Literature	Jenny Block	Open	Winner	[6]
		Lisa M. Diamond	Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire	Finalist
		Ron J. Suresha	Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey
		Edmund White	Rimbaud
		Honor Moore	The Bishop’s Daughter
2010	Bisexual Fiction	Mykola Dementiuk	Holy Communion	Winner	[7]
		Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli	Love You Two	Finalist	[7]
		Bobbie Geary	The Janeid
		J.E. Knowles	Arusha
		Amber Lehman	Torn
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Minal Hajratwala	Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents	Winner	[7]
		Audrey Beth Stein	Map	Finalist	[7]
		Blake Bailey	Cheever: A Life
		Emanuel Levy	Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer
		Edna O’Brien	Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
2011	Bisexual Fiction	Myrlin A. Hermes	The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet	Winner	[8]
		Daniel Allen Cox	Krakow Melt	Finalist	[9]
		Georgeann Packard	Fall Asleep Forgetting
		Malena Watrous	If You Follow Me
		Ann Herendeen	Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli	Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools	Winner	[8]
		Candace Walsh and Laura Andre (editors)	Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women	Finalist	[9]
		Michael Gregg Michaud	Sal Mineo
		Paula Byrne	Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
		Patti Smith	Just Kids
2012	Bisexual Fiction	Barbara Browning	The Correspondence Artist	Winner	[10] [11]
		Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla	The Two Krishnas	Finalist
		Katherine Scott Nelson	Have You Seen Me
		Alex Sanchez	Boyfriends With Girlfriends
		J.M. Frey	Triptych
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Jan Steckel	The Horizontal Poet	Winner	[10] [11]
		Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors)	Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature	Finalist
		Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editors)	Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
		Susie Bright	Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir
		Ven Rey	Surviving Steven: A True Story
2013	Bisexual Literature	Cheryl Burke	My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B	Winner	[12] [13]
		John Irving	In One Person	Winner
		Janet W. Hardy	Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals	Finalist	[12]
		Richard Mason	History of a Pleasure Seeker
		Scotty-Miguel Sandoe	Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List
2014	Bisexual Fiction	Susan Choi	My Education	Winner	[14] [15]
		Mel Bossa	In His Secret Life	Finalist	[14]
		Nicola Griffith	Hild: A Novel
		David Leavitt	The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel
		Bushra Rehman	Corona
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Maria San Filippo	The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television	Winner	[14] [15]
		Clive Davis	The Soundtrack of My Life	Finalist	[14]
		Shiri Eisner	Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
2015	Bisexual Fiction	Ana Castillo	Give It to Me	Winner	[16]
		Sheela Lambert (editor)	Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction	Finalist	[17]
		Ron J. Suresha	Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin
		Susie Hara	Finder of Lost Objects
		Vivek Shraya	She of the Mountains
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Charles M. Blow	Fire Shut Up In My Bones	Winner	[17] [16]
		Alan Cumming	Not My Father’s Son	Finalist	[17]
		Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams (editors)	Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
2016	Bisexual Literature	Emily Bingham	Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham	Winner (tie)	[18] [19]
		Anna North	The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
		Kevin Hogan	My Riastrad	Finalist	[20]
		Zoe Pilger	Eat My Heart Out
		Jeanette Winterson	The Gap of Time
2017	Bisexual Fiction	Abigail Child	Mouth to Mouth	Winner	[21]
		Martin Hyatt	Beautiful Gravity	Finalist	[22]
		Alexis M. Smith	Marrow Island
		Leopoldine Core	When Watched
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Ana Castillo	Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me	Winner	[21]
		Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz	Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women	Finalist	[22]
		Elizabeth Hall	I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris
		Ann Tweedy	The Body’s Alphabet
2018	Bisexual Fiction	Barbara Browning	The Gift	Winner	[23] [24]
		Zoey Leigh Peterson	Next Year, for Sure	Finalist	[25]
		Georgette Gouveia	The Penalty for Holding
		Andrea Lawlor	Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
		J.E. Sumerau	Homecoming Queens
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Roxane Gay	Hunger	Winner	[23] [24]
		Julene Tripp Weaver	Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS	Finalist	[25]
		Monica Meneghetti	What the Mouth Wants
2019	Bisexual Fiction	Négar Djavadi , with Tina Kover (trans.)	Disoriental	Winner	[26]
		Jennifer Natalya Fink	Bhopal Dance: A Novel	Finalist	[27]
		Nathan Alling Long	The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions
		Katrina Carrasco	The Best Bad Things: A Novel
		Jude Lucens	Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1
		Emily Strelow	The Wild Birds
		J.E. Sumerau	Palmetto Rose
		Lilah Suzanne	Jilted
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Anthony Moll	Out of Step: A Memoir	Winner	[26]
		Julietta Singh	No Archive Will Restore You	Finalist	[27]
		Sophie Lucido Johnson	Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
	Bisexual Poetry	Duy Doan	We Play a Game	Winner	[26]
		Fatimah Asghar	If They Come for Us	Finalist	[27]
		Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	Cenzontle
		Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul	My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
		Frances Donovan	Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems
2020	Bisexual Fiction	Fiona Alison Duncan	Exquisite Mariposa	Winner	[28] [29] [30]
		Alia Trabucco Zerán , with Sophie Hughes (trans.)	The Remainder	Finalist	[31] [32]
		Garrett Leigh	Jude
		Deborah Levy	The Man Who Saw Everything
		Jess Taylor	Just Pervs
		Tomas Moniz	Big Familia
		Carley Moore	The Not Wives
		Zack Smedley	Deposing Nathan
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Trisha Low	Socialist Realism	Winner	[28] [29] [30]
		Janet W. Hardy	IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant	Finalist	[31] [32]
		Victoria Freeman	A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
	Bisexual Poetry	Stephanie Young	Pet Sounds	Winner	[28] [29] [30]
		Moina Pam Dick	Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart	Finalist	[31] [32]
		Dorothy Chan	Revenge of the Asian Woman
		Camonghne Felix	Build Yourself a Boat
		Faylita Hicks	HoodWitch
		Ariana Reines	A Sand Book
		Cam Scott	ROMANS/SNOWMARE
		mai c. doan	water/tongue
2021	Bisexual Fiction	Zaina Arafat	You Exist Too Much	Winner	[33] [34] [35]
		Sulaiman Addonia	Silence Is My Mother Tongue	Finalist	[36]
		Talia Hibbert	Take a Hint, Dani Brown
		Elisabeth Thomas	Catherine House
		C Pam Zhang	How Much of These Hills is Gold
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Samantha Irby	Wow, No Thank You.: Essays	Winner	[33] [34] [35]
		Alden Jones	The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir	Finalist	[36]
		Emma Copley Eisenberg	The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
		Shayla Lawson	This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
		Natasha Sajé	Terroir: Love, Out of Place
	Bisexual Poetry	Aricka Foreman	Salt Body Shimmer	Winner	[33] [34] [35]
		Jody Chan	sick	Finalist	[36]
		S*an D. Henry-Smith	Wild Peach
		George Abraham	Birthright
		Meghan Privitello	One God at a Time
2022	Bisexual Fiction	Alix Ohlin	We Want What We Want	Winner	[37] [38]
		S. J. Sindu	Blue-Skinned Gods	Finalist	[39]
		Melissa Broder	Milk Fed
		Tiphanie Yanique	Monster in the Middle
		Jen Silverman	We Play Ourselves
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Aisha Sabatini Sloan	Borealis	Winner	[38]
		Hasanthika Sirisena	Dark Tourist: Essays	Finalist	[39]
		Jen Winston	Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
		Daisy Hernández	The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
		Courtney Cook	The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
	Bisexual Poetry	Aurielle Marie	Gumbo Ya Ya	Winner	[38]
		Muriel Leung	Imagine Us, The Swarm	Finalist	[39]
		CM Burroughs	Master Suffering
		Paige Quiñones	The Best Prey
		Jackie Wang	The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
2023	Bisexual Fiction	Gwendolyn Kiste	Reluctant Immortals	Winner	[40]
		A. J. Bermudez	Stories No One Hopes Are About Them	Finalist	[41]
		Akil Kumarasamy	Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
		Bushra Rehman	Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion
		Nishant Batsha	Mother Ocean Father Nation
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Maria San Filippo	Appropriate Behavior	Winner	[40]
		John Brady McDonald	Carrying It Forward	Finalist	[42] [43]
		Liz Scheier	Never Simple
		Rachel Krantz	Open
		CJ Hauser	The Crane Wife
	Bisexual Poetry	Nicky Beer	Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes	Winner	[40]
		Gabrielle Octavia Rucker	Dereliction	Finalist	[41]
		James Fujinami Moore	indecent hours
		Karyna McGlynn	50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse
		Rebecca Hawkes	Meat Lovers
2024	Bisexual Fiction	Ling Ling Huang	Natural Beauty	Winner	[44]
		Ruth Madievsky	All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel	Finalist	[45]
		Jennifer Savran Kelly	Endpapers
		Sarah James	Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen
		Haley Jakobson	Old Enough
	Bisexual Non-fiction	Myriam Gurba	Creep: Accusations and Confessions	Winner	[44]
		Vaneet Mehta	Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men	Finalist	[45]
		Zachary Zane	Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
		Eden Boudreau	Crying Wolf
		Kawika Guillermo	Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir
	Bisexual Poetry	Danielle Cadena Deulen	Desire Museum	Winner	[44]
		Mary Jo Bang	A Film in Which I Play Everyone	Finalist	[45]
		Sierra DeMulder	Ephemera
		Margaret Ray	Good Grief, the Ground
		Paul Killebrew	Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge

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