Leslie Feinberg Award

The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (formerly the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature) is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of literature on transgender themes. ^[1] The award may be presented for work in any genre of literature; to be eligible, a work of poetry or fiction must be written by a transgender or gender variant author, while a work of non-fiction may be written or cowritten by a cisgender writer as long as it addresses transgender themes.

The award comes with a cash prize of USD1,000. ^[1]

Recipients

Award winners and finalists ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2016	Nathanaël	The Middle Notebookes	Nightboat Books	Winner	[3] [2] [4]
	Corrina Bain	Debridement	Great Weather for Media	Finalist	[2] [4]
	Jackson Wright Schultz	Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities	Dartmouth College Press	Finalist	[2] [4]
	Maggie Nelson	The Argonauts	Graywolf Press	Finalist	[2] [4]
2017	Vivek Shraya	Even This Page Is White	Arsenal Pulp Press	Winner	[5] [6]
	Jay Besemer	Chelate	Brooklyn Arts Press	Finalist
	Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louise Plummer	A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder	University of Manitoba Press	Finalist
	Qwo-Li Driskill	Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory	University of Arizona Press	Finalist
2018	Reina Gossett , Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (ed.)	Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility	The MIT Press	Winner	[7]
	Amir Rabiyah	Prayers for My 17th Chromosome	Sibling Rivalry Press	Finalist
	Danez Smith	Don’t Call Us Dead	Graywolf Press	Finalist
	Kai Cheng Thom	A Place Called No Homeland	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
2019	Ely Shipley	Some Animal	Nightboat Books	Winner	[8]
	Gwen Benaway	Holy Wild	Bookthug Press	Finalist	[9]
	Jordy Rosenberg	Confessions of the Fox	One World/Random House	Finalist	[9]
	Joy Ladin	The Soul of the Stranger	Brandeis University Press	Finalist	[9]
2020	Kai Cheng Thom	I Hope We Choose Love	Arsenal Pulp Press	Winner	[10] [11]
	Arielle Twist	Disintegrate/Dissociate	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist	[12]
	Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (ed.)	We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991	Nightboat Books	Finalist	[12]
	Hazel Jane Plante	The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)	Metonymy Press	Finalist	[12]
2021	Hil Malatino	Trans Care	University of Minnesota Press	Winner	[13] [14]
	Akwaeke Emezi	The Death of Vivek Oji	Riverhead	Finalist
	Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (ed.)	We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry	Nightboat Books	Finalist
	S. Brook Corfman	My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites	Fordham University Press	Finalist
2022	Ari Banias	A Symmetry	W. W. Norton	Winner	[15]
	Casey Plett	A Dream of a Woman	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	Torrey Peters	Detransition, Baby	One World	Finalist
	Zoë Playdon	The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes	Scribner	Finalist
2023	Wo Chan	Togetherness	Nightboat Books	Winner	[16] [17]
	Cecilia Gentili	Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist	Little Puss Press	Finalist
	imogen xtian smith	stemmy things	Nightboat Books	Finalist
	Kemi Alabi	Against Heaven	Graywolf	Finalist
2024	Emily Zhou	Girlfriends	LittlePuss Press	Winner	[18] [19]
	Oliver Radclyffe	Adult Human Male	Unbound Edition Press	Finalist	[20]
	Casey Plett	On Community	Biblioasis	Finalist	[20]
	Talia Bettcher , Marci Blackman,  Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez, Cecilia Gentili, Kris Grey, Shereen Imayatulla, Nadine Rodriguez, Cassidy Scanlon, Catalina Schliebener Munoz, Red Washburn, Fitch Wilder, and Sarah Youngblood Gregory	Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms	Sinister Wisdom	Finalist	[20]
2025	Charlie J. Stephens	A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest	Torrey House Press	Finalist	[21]
	Emily Zhou	Dances of Time and Tenderness	Nightboat Books	Finalist	[21]
	Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (eds.)	El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities	Metonymy Press	Finalist	[21]
	Joshua Jennifer Espinoza	I Don’t Want to be Understood	Alice James Books	Finalist	[21]

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