Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Announced!

2009 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists

 

 
LGBT Anthologies
 

• 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)

• Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore (Lit Star 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

• Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)

• How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart (HarperCollins)

• In Mike We Trust, by P.E. Ryan (HarperCollins)

• Sprout, by Dale Peck (Bloomsbury USA)

• The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd (Penguin Books)

LGBT Drama

• The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman (Dramatists Play Service)

• The Collected Plays Of Mart Crowley, by Mart Crowley (Alyson Books)

• Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor, by Bonnie L. Morris (Indiana University Press)

 

LGBT Nonfiction
 

• The Golden Age of Gay Fiction, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)

• The Greeks and Greek Love, by James Davidson (Random House)

• I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press)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)

 

LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

• Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)

• Fist of the Spider Woman, by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)

• In the Closet, Under the Bed, by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)

• Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valenta (Bantam/Spectra Books)

• Pumpkin Teeth, by Tom Cardamone (Lethe Press)

 

LGBT Studies
 

• 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)

• The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, by Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)

 

Bisexual Fiction
 

• Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink)

• Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press)

• The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press)

• Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia)

• Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press)

 

Bisexual Nonfiction
 

• Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O'Brien (W. W. Norton)

• Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf)

• Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com)

• Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin's Press)

 

Transgender

• Bharat Jiva, by Kari Edwards (Litmus Press)

• Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show, by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D 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)

 

Lesbian Debut Fiction
 

• The Creamsickle, by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink)

• 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 (HarperCollins)

• Verge, by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)

 

 
Gay Debut Fiction

• Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal (Kensington Books)

• 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)

 

Lesbian Erotica
 

• Flesh and Bone, by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes Books)

• Lesbian Cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Cleis Press)

• Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)

• Where the Girls Are, by D.L. King (Cleis Press)

• Women of the Bite, by Cecelia Tan (Alyson Books)

 

Gay Erotica

• Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory (Bold Strokes Books)

• Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian (City Lights)

• 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)

 

 
Lesbian Fiction

• Dismantled, by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins)

• A Field Guide to Deception, by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)

• Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press)

• Risk, by Elena Dykewomon (Bywater Books)

• This One's Going to Last Forever, by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press)

 

Gay Fiction
 

• Lake Overturn, by Vestal McIntyre (HarperCollins)

• 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))

• Silverlake, by Peter Gadol (Tyrus Books)

 

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

• 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 (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Fireside)

• The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin's Press)

 

Gay Memoir/Biography

• Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back, by Reynolds Price (Scribner Books)

• 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)

 

Lesbian Mystery

• Command of Silence, by Paulette Callen (Spinsters Ink)

• Death of a Dying Man, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)

• 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)

 

Gay Mystery

• All Lost Things, by Josh Aterovis (P.D. Publishing)

• The 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)

• What We Remember, by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington Books)

 

Lesbian Poetry

• Bird Eating Bird, by Kristin Naca (HarperCollins)

• Gospel: Poems, by Samiya Bashir (Red Bone Press)

• Names, by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton)

• Stars of the Night Commute, by Ana Bozicevic (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

• Zero at the Bone, by Stacie Cassarino (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

 

Gay Poetry
 

• 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)

• Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press)

• What the Right Hand Knows, by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)

 

Lesbian Romance

• It Should Be a Crime, by Carsen Taite (Bold Strokes Books)

• No Rules of Engagement, by Tracey Richardson (Bella Books)

• The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, by Colette Moody (Bold Strokes Books)

• Stepping Stone, by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)

• Worth Every Step, by KG MacGregor (Bella Books)

 

Gay Romance
 

• Drama Queers!, by Frank Anthony Polito (Kensington Books)

• 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, by Erastes (Running Press)