Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards!
On Saturday, Lambda Literary announced the 24 winners of its 34th annual Lambda Literary Awards, chosen from more than 1,300 submissions and selected by more than 60 judges in the literary field.
In addition to prizes in the categories below, Lambda Literary awarded special honors to Kalynn Bayron (Kenan Prize), Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Cordova Prize), Ching-In Chen and Morgan Thomas (Markowitz Prize), Jobert Abueva (Samuel Prize), and Vi Khi Nao and Silas House (Duggins Prize).
Below, you’ll find the list of finalists with winners highlighted in bold.
Congratulations to all!
2022 Lambda Literary Award Winners
LESBIAN FICTION
Venita Blackburn, How to Wrestle a Girl
Lauren Groff, Matrix
Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling
Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds
Kristen Arnett, With Teeth
GAY FICTION
Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
Selva Almada, Brickmakers: A Novel, translated by Annie McDermott
Jaime Cortez, Gordo
Yang Huang, My Good Son
Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk
BISEXUAL FICTION
SJ Sindu, Blue-Skinned Gods
Melissa Broder, Milk Fed: A Novel
Tiphanie Yanique, Monster in the Middle
Jen Silverman, We Play Ourselves
Alix Ohlin, We Want What We Want
TRANSGENDER FICTION
Callum Angus, A Natural History of Transition
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
Megan Milks, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun
BISEXUAL NONFICTION
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Borealis
Hasanthika Sirisena, Dark Tourist: Essays
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
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION
Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Francisco Galarte, Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Ivan Coyote, Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt, Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments
LGBTQ NONFICTION
Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran
Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
Melissa Febos, Girlhood
Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show
Kazim Ali, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
LESBIAN POETRY
Rosamond S. King, All the Rage
Tamiko Beyer, Last Days
Grace Lau, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak
Donika Kelly, The Renunciations: Poems
Arisa White, Who’s Your Daddy
GAY POETRY
Nicholas Wong,Besiege Me
Michael Walsh, Creep Love
John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems
Miguel Murphy, Shoreditch
Derrick Austin, Tenderness
BISEXUAL POETRY
Aurielle Marie, Gumbo Ya Ya
Muriel Leung, Imagine Us, The Swarm
CM Burroughs, Master Suffering
Paige Quiñones, The Best Prey
Jackie Wang, The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
TRANSGENDER POETRY
Mason J, Crossbones on My Life
Dani Putney, Salamat sa Intersectionality
Lindsay Choi, Transverse
Andrea Abi-Karam, Villainy
Raquel Salas Rivera, x/ex/exis
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
Leslie Cohen, The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation
Jonathan Ned Katz, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
Sophie Santos, The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had): A Memoir
Adele Bertei, Why Labelle Matters
