Year Author Title Result Ref. 1989 Dorothy Allison Trash: Short Stories Winner Sarah Schulman After Delores Finalist Rita Mae Brown Bingo Jan Clausen The Prosperine Papers Camarin Grae The Secret in the Bird 1990 Nisa Donnelly The Bar Stories: A Novel After All Winner [ 1] Jane Rule After the Fire Finalist [ 1] May Sarton Education of Harriet Hatfield Shay Youngblood The Big Mama Stories Valerie Miner Trespassing and Other Stories 1991 Paula Martinac Out of Time Winner [ 2] Jane DeLynn Don Juan in the Village Finalist [ 2] Anna Livia Incidents Involving Mirth Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz My Jewish Face Sarah Schulman People in Trouble 1992 Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories Winner (tie) [ 3] Blanche McCrary Boyd The Revolution of Little Girls Diane Salvatore Benediction Finalist [ 3] Judith McDaniel Just Say Yes Anna Livia Minimax 1993 Judith Katz Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound Winner [ 4] Carol Anshaw Aquamarine Finalist [ 4] Sarah Schulman Empathy Madelyn Arnold On Ships at Sea Rebecca Brown Terrible Girls 1994 Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body Winner [ 5] Paula Martinac Home Movies Finalist [ 5] Jenifer Levin Sea of Light Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch Women on Women 2 1995 Rebecca Brown The Gifts of the Body Winner [ 6] Eileen Myles Chelsea Girls Finalist [ 6] Heather Lewis House Rules Emma Donoghue Sir Fry Ellen Galford The Dyke and the Dybbuk 1996 Jacqueline Woodson Autobiography of a Family Photo Winner [ 7] Louise Blum Amnesty Finalist [ 7] Stephanie Grant Passion of Alice Sarah Schulman Rat Bohemia Lucy Jane Bledsoe Sweat 1997 Achy Obejas Memory Mambo Winner [ 8] Barbara Wilson If You Had a Family Finalist [ 8] Carol Anshaw Seven Moves Sarah Van Arsdale Toward Amnesia Rebecca Brown What Keeps Me Here 1998 Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Winner [ 9] Frankie Hucklenbroich A Crystal Diary Finalist [ 9] Ruthann Robson A/K/A Persimmon Blackbridge Prozac Highway Blanche McCrary Boyd Terminal Velocity 1999 Dorothy Allison Cavedweller Winner [ 10] Sarah Schulman Shimmer Finalist [ 10] Sharon Bridgforth the bull-jean stories Rebecca Brown The Dogs Erika Lopez They Call Me Mad Dog 2000 Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet Winner [ 11] Anna Livia Bruised Fruit Finalist [ 11] Barbara Wilson Salt Water and Other Stories Terri de la Peña Faults Elizabeth Stark Shy Girl 2001 Michelle Tea Valencia Winner [ 12] Sarah Waters Affinity Finalist [ 12] Shay Youngblood Black Girl in Paris Stacey D'Erasmo Tea Jeanette Winterson The Powerbook 2002 Achy Obejas Days of Awe Winner [ 13] Erika Lopez Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat Finalist [ 14] Ann Wadsworth Light, Coming Back Sylvia Brownrigg Pages for You Alexandra Grilikhes Yin Fire 2003 Sarah Waters Fingersmith Winner [ 15] Lynn Breedlove Godspeed Finalist [ 15] Carol Anshaw Lucky in the Corner Nicola Griffith Stay Lydia Kwa This Place Called Absence 2004 Nina Revoyr Southland Winner [ 16] Susan J. Leonardi And Then They Were Nuns Finalist [ 16] Ann-Marie MacDonald The Way the Crow Flies Lucy Jane Bledsoe This Wild Silence Carla Trujillo What Night Brings 2005 Stacey D'Erasmo A Seahorse Year Winner [ 17] Valerie Miner Abundant Light Finalist [ 17] Emma Donoghue Life Mask Maggie Dubris Skels Susan Stinson Venus of Chalk 2006 Abha Dawesar Babyji Winner [ 18] Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping Finalist [ 18] Aren X. Tulchinsky The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Helen Humphreys Wild Dogs Lauren Sanders With or Without You 2007 Sarah Waters The Night Watch Winner [ 19] Sheila Ortiz Taylor Outrageous Finalist [ 19] J. D. Glass Punk Like Me Michelle Tea Rose of No Man's Land Leslie Larson Slipstream 2008 Ali Liebegott The IHOP Papers Winner [ 20] [ 21] Lucy Jane Bledsoe Biting the Apple Finalist [ 21] Mari SanGiovanni Greetings from Jamaica Sarah Schulman The Child Julia Watts The Kind of Girl I Am Jess Wells The Mandrake Broom 2009 Chandra Mayor All the Pretty Girls Winner (tie) [ 22] Emma Donoghue The Sealed Letter Ruth Perkinson Breaking Spirit Bridge Finalist [ 22] Stephanie Grant Map of Ireland Ivan Coyote The Slow Fix 2010 Jill Malone A Field Guide to Deception Winner [ 23] Jennifer McMahon Dismantled Finalist [ 23] Emma Pérez Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory Elana Dykewomon Risk Nairne Holtz This One's Going to Last Forever 2011 Eileen Myles Inferno (a poet's novel) Winner [ 24] [ 25] Lucy Jane Bledsoe Big Bang Symphony Finalist [ 26] Zelda Lockhart Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle Zoe Whittall Holding Still for as Long as Possible Carol Guess Homeschooling 2012 Farzana Doctor Six Metres of Pavement Winner [ 27] Kristyn Dunnion The Dirt Chronicles Finalist [ 28] Shannon Cain The Necessity of Certain Behaviors Hillary Jordan When She Woke Nina Revoyr Wingshooters 2013 Thrity Umrigar The World We Found Winner [ 29] [ 30] Carol Anshaw Carry the One Finalist [ 29] Ellis Avery The Last Nude Jesse Blackadder The Raven's Heart B. K. Loren Theft Catherine Jones Wonder Girls 2014 Chinelo Okparanta Happiness, Like Water Winner [ 31] [ 32] [ 33] T. Greenwood Bodies of Water Finalist [ 32] Ali Liebegott Cha-Ching! Christiana Harrell Cream e.E. Charlton-Trujillo Fat Angie Kate Worsley She Rises Jean Ryan Survival Skills Chavisa Woods The Albino Album Jeanette Winterson The Daylight Gate Wally Lamb We Are Water 2015 Alexis De Veaux Yabo Winner [ 34] [ 35] Ann-Marie MacDonald Adult Onset Finalist [ 35] Qiu Miaojin Last Words of Montmartre Francine Prose Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 M. B. Caschetta Miracle Girls Shelly Oria New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues Sarah Waters The Paying Guests 2016 Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees Winner [ 36] [ 37] [ 38] Virginie Despentes Apocalypse Baby Finalist [ 39] Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Blue Talk and Love LaShonda Katrice Barnett Jam on the Vine Debra Busman Like a Woman Tiya Miles The Cherokee Rose Miranda July The First Bad Man Violette Leduc Thérèse and Isabelle 2017 Nicole Dennis-Benn Here Comes the Sun Winner [ 40] Lucy Jane Bledsoe A Thin Bright Line Finalist [ 41] Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn Kathy Anderson Bull & Other Stories M. B. Caschetta Pretend I'm Your Friend Lynda A. Archer Tears in the Grass Lynn C. Miller The Day After Death Cathleen Schine They May Not Mean To, But They Do 2018 Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Winner [ 42] [ 43] [ 44] Roxane Gay Difficult Women Finalist [ 45] S. J. Sindu Marriage of a Thousand Lies Anne Garréta Not One Day Leona Beasley Something Better than Home Patricia A. Smith The Year of Needy Girls Chavisa Woods Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country Ariel Gore We Were Witches 2019 Larissa Lai The Tiger Flu Winner [ 46] Trifonia Melibea Obono with Lawrence Schimel (trans.) La Bastarda Finalist [ 47] Sarah Schulman Maggie Terry Genevieve Hudson Pretend We Live Here Amber Dawn Sodom Road Exit Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Evolution of Love Nona Caspers The Fifth Woman Krystal A. Smith Two Moons 2020 Nicole Dennis-Benn Patsy Winner [ 48] [ 49] [ 50] Janice Gould A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant Finalist [ 51] [ 52] Mathangi Subramanian A People's History of Heaven Carolina De Robertis Cantoras Kristen Arnett Mostly Dead Things Shannon Pufahl On Swift Horses Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone Madeline Ffitch Stay and Fight 2021 Julián Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical Winner [ 53] [ 54] [ 55] K-Ming Chang Bestiary Finalist [ 56] Francesca Ekwuyasi Butter Honey Pig Bread Jennifer Steil Exile Music Jean Kyoung Frazier Pizza Girl 2022 Mia McKenzie Skye Falling Winner [ 57] [ 58] Lauren Groff Matrix Finalist [ 59] Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds Venita Blackburn How to Wrestle a Girl Kristen Arnett With Teeth 2023 K-Ming Chang Gods of Want Winner [ 60] Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Finalist [ 61] [ 62] Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl Julia Armfield Our Wives Under the Sea Mónica Ojeda , trans. by Sarah BookerJawbone 2024 Catherine Lacey Biography of X Winner [ 63] Jen Beagin Big Swiss Finalist [ 64] K-Ming Chang Organ Meats C. E. McGill Our Hideous Progeny Helen Elaine Lee Pomegranate