The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

Part of the Publishing Triangle Awards

2023

Against Heaven, by Kemi Alabi (Graywolf)

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist, by Cecilia Gentili  (Little Puss Press)

stemmy things, by imogen xtian smith (Nightboat Books)

Togetherness, by Wo Chan (Nightboat Books) – WINNER

2022

Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters (One World)

A Dream of a Woman, by Casey Plett (Arsenal Pulp Press)

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, by Zoë Playdon (Scribner)

A Symmetry, by Ari Banias (W. W. Norton) – WINNER

2021

The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, by S. Brook Corfman (Fordham University Press)

Trans Care, by Hil Malatino (University of Minnesota Press) – WNNER

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (Nightboat Books)

2020

Disintegrate/Dissociate, by Arielle Twist (Arsenal Pulp Press)

I Hope We Choose Love, by Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press) – WINNER

The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), by Hazel Jane Plante (Metonymy Press)

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (Nightboat Books)

2019

Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg (One World/Random House)

Holy Wild, by Gwen Benaway (Bookthug Press)

Some Animal, by Ely Shipley (Nightboat Books) – WINNER

The Soul of the Stranger, by Joy Ladin (Brandeis University Press)

2018

Don’t Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)

A Place Called No Homeland, by Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Prayers for My 17th Chromosome, by Amir Rabiyah (Sibling Rivalry Press)

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton (The MIT Press) – WINNER

2017

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory, by Qwo-Li Driskill (University of Arizona Press)

Chelate, by Jay Besemer (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Even This Page Is White, by Vivek Shraya (Arsenal Pulp Press) – WINNER

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder, by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louise Plummer (University of Manitoba Press)

2016

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf Press)

Debridement, by Corrina Bain (Great Weather for Media)

The Middle Notebookes, by Nathanaël (Nightboat Books) – WINNER

Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities, by Jackson Wright Schultz (Dartmouth College Press)