Year |
Category |
Author |
Work |
Result |
Ref. |
1997 |
Literature |
Loren Cameron |
Body Alchemy |
Winner |
[7] |
Phyllis Burke |
Gender Shock |
Finalist |
[7] |
Leon E. Pettiway |
Honey, Honey Miss Thang |
Catalina de Erauso |
Lieutenant Nun |
Leslie Feinberg |
Warriors |
1998 |
Literature |
Dylan Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams |
The Last Time I Wore a Dress |
Winner |
[8] |
Annick Prieur |
Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos |
Finalist |
[8] |
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (editors) |
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality |
Riki Wilchins |
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender |
Pat Califia |
Sex Changes |
1999 |
Literature |
Michael R. Gorman |
The Empress Is a Man |
Winner |
[9] |
Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray (editors) |
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands |
Finalist |
[9] |
Judith Halberstam |
Female Masculinity |
Diane Wood |
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton |
Leslie Feinberg |
Trans Liberation |
2000 |
Literature |
Jackie Kay |
Trumpet |
Winner |
[10] |
Deirdre McCloskey |
Crossing |
Finalist |
[10] |
Jacobo Schifter |
From Toads to Queens |
Del LaGrace and Jack Halberstam |
The Drag King Book |
Jason Cromwell |
Transmen and FTMs |
2001 |
Literature |
David Ebershoff |
The Danish Girl |
Winner |
[11] |
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez |
Are You a Boy or a Girl? |
Finalist |
[11] |
John Colapinto |
As Nature Made Him |
Noelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (editors) |
Out of the Ordinary |
Chris Bohjalian |
Trans-Sister Radio |
2002 |
Bisexual/Transgender Literature |
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott |
Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach |
Winner |
[12] |
Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors) |
Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 |
Finalist |
[12] |
Vanessa Sheridan |
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian |
Jonathan Branton |
Dragged!! To His Senses |
Sparrow L. Patterson |
Synthetic Bi Products |
2003 |
Literature |
Noelle Howey |
Dress Codes |
Winner |
[13][14] |
Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (editors) |
Brazen Femme |
Finalist |
[14] |
Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (editors) |
GenderQueer |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
Middlesex |
T Cooper |
Some of the Parts |
2004 |
Literature |
Jennifer Finney Boylan |
She's Not There |
Winner |
[15] |
Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco, and Jean Noble (editors) |
The Drag King Anthology |
Finalist |
[15] |
Justin Tanis |
Trans-gendered |
Virginia Ramey and Vanessa Sheridan |
Transgender Journeys |
2005 |
Literature |
Mariette Pathy Allen |
The Gender Frontier |
Winner |
[16] |
Jamison Green |
Becoming a Visible Man |
Finalist |
[16] |
Morty Diamond (editor) |
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond |
Julie Anne Peters |
Luna |
Helen Boyd |
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser |
2006 |
Literature |
Charlie Anders |
Choir Boy |
Winner |
[17] |
Tennessee Jones |
Deliver Me from Nowhere |
Finalist |
[17] |
Judith Halberstam |
In a Queer Time and Place |
Matt Kailey |
Just Add Hormones |
Deborah Rudacille |
The Riddle of Gender |
2007 |
Literature |
Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (editors) |
The Transgender Studies Reader |
Winner |
[18] |
Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (editors) |
Rights |
Finalist |
[18] |
Leslie Feinberg |
Drag King Dreams |
Alicia E. Goranson |
Supervillainz |
Max Wolf Valerio |
The Testosterone Files |
2008 |
Literature |
Cris Beam |
Transparent |
Winner |
[19][20] |
LeeRay M. Costa, |
Male Bodies, Women's Souls |
Finalist |
[20] |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
Nobody Passes |
Eli Clare |
The Marrow's Telling |
Aaron Raz and Hilda Raz |
What Becomes You |
2009 |
Literature |
Thea Hillman |
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) |
Winner |
[21] |
Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray |
10,000 Dresses |
Finalist |
[21] |
Ely Shipley |
Boy with Flowers |
Susan Stryker |
History |
Scott Schofield |
Two Truths and a Lie |
2010 |
Literature |
Lynn Breedlove |
Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show |
Winner |
[22] |
Kari Edwards |
Bharat Jiva |
Finalist |
[22] |
S. Bear Bergman |
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You |
Joy Ladin |
Transmigration |
Adam Lowe |
Troglodyte Rose |
2011 |
Fiction |
Zoe Whittall |
Holding Still for As Long As Possible |
Winner |
[23] |
Justin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland, and Jon Macy |
Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny |
Finalist |
[24] |
Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Jumpstart the World |
Nonfiction |
Noach Dzmura (editor) |
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community |
Winner |
[25] |
Rebecca Swan |
Assume Nothing |
Finalist |
[25] |
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (editors) |
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation |
Kristen Schilt |
Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality |
Michelle Alexander and Michelle Diane Rose |
The Color of Sunlight |
2012 |
Fiction |
Tristan Taormino (editor) |
Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica |
Winner |
[26] |
Cris Beam |
I am J |
Finalist |
|
L.A. Witt |
Static |
|
Rafe Posey |
The Book of Broken Hymns |
|
Dana De Young |
The Butterfly and the Flame |
[3] |
Nonfiction |
Justin Vivian Bond |
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels |
Winner |
[26] |
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors) |
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex |
Finalist |
|
Megan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig (editors) |
Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect |
|
Dean Spade |
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law |
|
Peter Boag |
Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past |
|
2013 |
Fiction |
Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors) |
The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard |
Winner |
[27][28] |
Rachel Gold |
Being Emily |
Finalist |
[28] |
Roz Kaveney |
Dialectic of the Flesh |
Rae Spoon |
First Spring Grass Fire |
Michael Quadland |
Offspring |
Nonfiction |
Anne Enke (editor) |
Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies |
Winner |
[27][28] |
Ryka Aoki |
Seasonal Velocities |
Finalist |
[28] |
Matt Kailey |
Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects |
Dylan Edwards |
Transposes |
2014 |
Fiction |
Trish Salah |
Wanting in Arabic |
Winner |
[29][30] |
Imogen Binnie |
Nevada |
Finalist |
[30] |
Devon Llywelyn Jones |
Tiresias |
Nonfiction |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
The End of San Francisco |
Winner |
[29][30] |
S. Bear Bergman |
Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter |
Finalist |
[30] |
Beatriz Preciado |
Testo Junkie |
2015 |
Fiction |
Casey Plett |
A Safe Girl to Love |
Winner |
[31][32] |
La JohnJoseph |
Everything Must Go |
Finalist |
[33] |
Kim Fu |
For Today I Am a Boy |
Shani Mootoo |
Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab |
Alex Myers |
Revolutionary: A Novel |
Nonfiction |
Thomas Page McBee |
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man |
Winner |
[31] |
Janet Mock |
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More |
Finalist |
[33] |
Laura Erickson-Schroth |
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community |
2016 |
Fiction |
Roz Kaveney |
Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners |
Winner |
[34][35] |
Michael Scott, Jr. |
Defiant |
Finalist |
[36] |
Sassafras Lowrey |
Lost Boi |
Nonfiction |
Willy Wilkinson |
Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency |
Winner |
[34][35] |
Amy Ellis Nutt |
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family |
Finalist |
[36] |
Zane Thimmesch-Gill |
Hiding in Plain Sight |
Poetry |
kari edwards |
succubus in my pocket |
Winner |
[34][35] |
Joy Ladin |
Impersonation |
Finalist |
[36] |
Ryka Aoki |
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul |
2017 |
Fiction |
jia qing wilson-yang |
Small Beauty |
Winner |
[37] |
Kai Cheng Thom |
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir |
Finalist |
[38] |
Meredith Russo |
If I Was Your Girl |
Nonfiction |
Lei Ming |
Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China |
Winner |
[37] |
Morgan Mann Willis |
Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity |
Finalist |
[38] |
Julia Serano |
Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism |
Samuel Peterson |
Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir |
Sung Yim |
What About the Rest of Your Life |
Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolbloom |
You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition |
Poetry |
Kokumo |
Reacquainted with Life |
Winner |
[37] |
Vivek Shraya |
even this page is white |
Finalist |
[38] |
Jos Charles |
Safe Space |
Cameron Awkward-Rich |
Sympathetic Little Monster |
Jai Arun Ravine |
The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide |
2018 |
Fiction |
Bogi Takács (editor) |
Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction |
Winner |
[39][40] |
Jennifer Finney Boylan |
Long Black Veil |
Finalist |
[41] |
Tobi Hill-Meyer (editor) |
Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic |
Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta, and Larissa Glasser (editors) |
Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything |
Jeanne Thornton |
The Black Emerald |
Nonfiction |
C. Riley Snorton |
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity |
Winner |
[39][40] |
Rosalind Rosenberg |
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray |
Finalist |
[41] |
Brice Smith |
Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men |
Janet Mock |
Surpassing Certainty |
Poetry |
Ching-In Chen |
recombinant |
Winner |
[39][40] |
Kai Cheng Thom |
a place called Homeland |
Finalist |
[41] |
Juliana Huxtable |
Mucus in My Pineal Gland |
Julian Talamantez Brolaski |
Of Mongrelitude |
Kayleb Rae Candrilli |
What Runs Over |
2019 |
Fiction |
Casey Plett |
Little Fish |
Winner |
[42] |
Jordy Rosenberg |
Confessions of the Fox: A Novel |
Finalist |
|
Akwaeke Emezi |
Freshwater |
Calvin Gimpelevich |
Invasions |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
Sketchtasy |
Nonfiction |
Julian Gill-Peterson |
Histories of the Transgender Child |
Winner |
[42] |
Thomas Page McBee |
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man |
Finalist |
|
Vivek Shraya |
I'm Afraid of Men |
Aren Z. Aizura |
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment |
Samantha Allen |
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States |
Joy Ladin |
The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective |
Poetry |
Raquel Salas Rivera |
lo terciario / the tertiary |
Winner |
[42] |
Luna Merbruja |
Heal Your Love |
Finalist |
|
Gwen Benaway |
Holy Wild |
Sara Mithra |
If the Color Is Fugitive |
Ely Shipley |
Some Animal |
2020 |
Fiction |
Hazel Jane Plante |
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) |
Winner |
[43][44][45] |
Bones McKay |
Honey Walls |
Finalist |
[46][47] |
M.Z. McDonnell |
Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer |
Rachel Pollack |
The Beatrix Gates |
Bogi Takács |
The Trans Space Octopus Congregation |
Nonfiction |
Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (editors) |
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan |
Winner |
[43][44][45] |
Andrea Long Chu |
Females |
Finalist |
[46][47] |
S.J. Langer |
Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender |
T Fleischmann |
Time Is the Thing A Body Moves Through |
Poetry |
Xandria Phillips |
HULL |
Winner |
[43][44][45] |
Cameron Awkward-Rich |
Dispatch |
Finalist |
[46][47] |
Andrea Abi-Karam |
EXTRATRANSMISSION |
Samuel Ace |
Our Weather Our Sea |
Yanyi |
The Year of Blue Water |
2021 |
Fiction |
Zeyn Joukhadar |
The Thirty Names of Night |
Winner |
[48][49][50] |
Nino Cipri |
Finna |
Finalist |
[51] |
Chana Porter |
The Seep |
Vivek Shraya |
The Subtweet |
Lydia Rogue (editor) |
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers |
Nonfiction |
J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi |
The Black Trans Prayer Book |
Winner |
[48][49][50] |
Meredith Talusan |
Fairest: A Memoir |
Finalist |
[51] |
L Heidenreich |
Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
The Freezer Door |
Hil Malatino |
Trans Care |
Poetry |
Sade LaNay |
I Love You and I'm Not Dead |
Winner |
[48][49][50] |
Aeon Ginsberg |
Greyhound |
Finalist |
[51] |
Kay Ulanday Barrett |
More Than Organs |
Maxe Crandall |
The Nancy Reagan Collection |
Jay Besemer |
Theories of Performance |
2022 |
Fiction |
Jeanne Thornton |
Summer Fun |
Winner |
[52][53] |
Torrey Peters |
Detransition, Baby |
Finalist |
[54][55] |
Callum Angus |
A Natural History of Transition |
[55] |
Megan Milks |
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body |
Shelley Parker-Chan |
She Who Became the Sun |
Nonfiction |
Da’Shaun Harrison |
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness |
Winner |
[52][53] |
Francisco Galarte |
Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies |
Finalist |
[55] |
Ivan Coyote |
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures |
Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Eds.) |
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography |
Lucie Fielding |
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments |
Poetry |
Mason J |
Crossbones on My Life |
Winner |
[53] |
Dani Putney |
Salamat sa Intersectionality |
Finalist |
[55] |
Lindsay Choi |
Transverse |
Andrea Abi-Karam |
Villainy |
Raquel Salas Rivera |
x/ex/exis |
2023 |
Fiction |
Cat Fitzpatrick |
The Call-Out |
Winner |
[56] |
James Hannaham |
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta |
Finalist |
[57][58] |
Izzy Wasserstein |
All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From |
Morgan Thomas |
Manywhere |
Maya Deane |
Wrath Goddess Sing |
Nonfiction |
Emma Grove |
The Third Person |
Winner |
[56] |
Kit Heyam |
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender |
Finalist |
[59][58] |
Cecilia Gentili |
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist |
Jeremiah Moss |
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York |
Cameron Awkward-Rich |
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment |
Transgender Poetry |
Kamden Ishmael Hilliard |
MissSettl |
Winner |
[56] |
Golden |
A Dead Name That Learned How to Live |
Finalist |
[58] |
Kay Gabriel |
A Queen in Bucks County |
Paul Tran |
All the Flowers Kneeling |
Prathna Lor |
Emanations |
2024 |
Transgender Fiction |
Soula Emmanuel |
Wild Geese |
Winner |
[60] |
Nicola Dinan |
Bellies |
Finalist |
[61] |
Emily Zhou |
Girlfriends |
Valérie Bah, translated by Kama La Mackerel |
The Rage Letters |
Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny |
Trash |
Transgender Nonfiction |
Miss Major and Toshio Meronek |
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary |
Winner |
[60] |
McKenzie Wark |
Love and Money, Sex and Death |
Finalist |
[61] |
Casey Plett |
On Community |
Stacy Jane Grover |
Tar Hollow Trans: Essays |
Mx. Sly |
Transland: Consent, Kink and Pleasure |
Transgender Poetry |
Michal "MJ" Jones |
Hood Vacations |
Winner |
[60] |
Victoriano Cárdenas |
Portraits as Animals: Poems |
Finalist |
[61] |
K. Iver |
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco |
Jennifer Conlon |
Taking to Water |
Subhaga Crystal Bacon |
Transitory |