# Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature

The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with bisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry. Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be bi-, homo-, hetero-, or asexual.

## Criteria
### Bisexual fiction

The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities." The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction."

### Bisexual nonfiction

The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader."

### Bisexual poetry

The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content. Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category.

### Bisexual/Transgender literature

In 2001, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.

## Recipients

Winners and finalists of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature :
| Year | Category | Author | Work | Result |
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | Winner |
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Sparrow L. Patterson | Synthetic Bi Products | Finalist |
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors) | Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 | Finalist |
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Vanessa Sheridan | Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian | Finalist |
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Jonathan Branton | Dragged!! To His Senses | Finalist |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Michael Szymanski and Nicole Kristal | The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe | Winner |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany (editors) | Bi Men | Finalist |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Ronald C. Fox | Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men | Finalist |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio | Eros | Finalist |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Ron Jackson Suresha (editor) | Bi Guys | Finalist |
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Clarence Nero | Three Sides to Every Story | Finalist |
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Brent Hartinger | Split Screen | Winner |
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Jeff Hobbs | The Tourists | Finalist |
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Beth Firestein (editor) | Becoming Visible | Finalist |
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Jennifer Baumgardner | Look Both Ways | Finalist |
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Sheri Joseph | Stray | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Jenny Block | Open | Winner |
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Lisa M. Diamond | Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Ron J. Suresha | Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Edmund White | Rimbaud | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Honor Moore | The Bishop’s Daughter | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Mykola Dementiuk | Holy Communion | Winner |
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Love You Two | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Bobbie Geary | The Janeid | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | J.E. Knowles | Arusha | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Amber Lehman | Torn | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Minal Hajratwala | Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents | Winner |
| 2010 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Audrey Beth Stein | Map | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Emanuel Levy | Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer | Finalist |
| 2010 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Edna O’Brien | Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Myrlin A. Hermes | The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet | Winner |
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Daniel Allen Cox | Krakow Melt | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Georgeann Packard | Fall Asleep Forgetting | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Malena Watrous | If You Follow Me | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Ann Herendeen | Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools | Winner |
| 2011 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Candace Walsh and Laura Andre (editors) | Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Michael Gregg Michaud | Sal Mineo | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Paula Byrne | Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Patti Smith | Just Kids | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Correspondence Artist | Winner |
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla | The Two Krishnas | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Katherine Scott Nelson | Have You Seen Me | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Alex Sanchez | Boyfriends With Girlfriends | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | J.M. Frey | Triptych | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Jan Steckel | The Horizontal Poet | Winner |
| 2012 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors) | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editors) | Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Susie Bright | Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir | Finalist |
| 2012 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Ven Rey | Surviving Steven: A True Story | Finalist |
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Cheryl Burke | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B | Winner |
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | John Irving | In One Person | Winner |
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Janet W. Hardy | Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals | Finalist |
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Richard Mason | History of a Pleasure Seeker | Finalist |
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Scotty-Miguel Sandoe | Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi | My Education | Winner |
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Mel Bossa | In His Secret Life | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Nicola Griffith | Hild: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | David Leavitt | The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Bushra Rehman | Corona | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Winner |
| 2014 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Clive Davis | The Soundtrack of My Life | Finalist |
| 2014 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Shiri Eisner | Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Ana Castillo | Give It to Me | Winner |
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Sheela Lambert (editor) | Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Ron J. Suresha | Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Susie Hara | Finder of Lost Objects | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Vivek Shraya | She of the Mountains | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones | Winner |
| 2015 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Alan Cumming | Not My Father’s Son | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams (editors) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Emily Bingham | Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham | Winner (tie) |
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Anna North | The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | Winner (tie) |
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Kevin Hogan | My Riastrad | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Zoe Pilger | Eat My Heart Out | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Jeanette Winterson | The Gap of Time | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Abigail Child | Mouth to Mouth | Winner |
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Martin Hyatt | Beautiful Gravity | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Alexis M. Smith | Marrow Island | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Leopoldine Core | When Watched | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Ana Castillo | Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me | Winner |
| 2017 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz | Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Elizabeth Hall | I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris | Finalist |
| 2017 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Ann Tweedy | The Body’s Alphabet | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Gift | Winner |
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, for Sure | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Georgette Gouveia | The Penalty for Holding | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Andrea Lawlor | Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | J.E. Sumerau | Homecoming Queens | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Roxane Gay | Hunger | Winner |
| 2018 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Julene Tripp Weaver | Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Monica Meneghetti | What the Mouth Wants | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Négar Djavadi, with Tina Kover (trans.) | Disoriental | Winner |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Nathan Alling Long | The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Katrina Carrasco | The Best Bad Things: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Jude Lucens | Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Emily Strelow | The Wild Birds | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | J.E. Sumerau | Palmetto Rose | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Lilah Suzanne | Jilted | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Anthony Moll | Out of Step: A Memoir | Winner |
| 2019 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Julietta Singh | No Archive Will Restore You | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Sophie Lucido Johnson | Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Poetry | Duy Doan | We Play a Game | Winner |
| 2019 | Bisexual Poetry | Fatimah Asghar | If They Come for Us | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Poetry | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Cenzontle | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Poetry | Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul | My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bisexual Poetry | Frances Donovan | Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Fiona Alison Duncan | Exquisite Mariposa | Winner |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Alia Trabucco Zerán, with Sophie Hughes (trans.) | The Remainder | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Garrett Leigh | Jude | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Jess Taylor | Just Pervs | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Tomas Moniz | Big Familia | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Carley Moore | The Not Wives | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Zack Smedley | Deposing Nathan | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Trisha Low | Socialist Realism | Winner |
| 2020 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Janet W. Hardy | IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Victoria Freeman | A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Stephanie Young | Pet Sounds | Winner |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Moina Pam Dick | Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Dorothy Chan | Revenge of the Asian Woman | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Camonghne Felix | Build Yourself a Boat | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Faylita Hicks | HoodWitch | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Ariana Reines | A Sand Book | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | Cam Scott | ROMANS/SNOWMARE | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bisexual Poetry | mai c. doan | water/tongue | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Zaina Arafat | You Exist Too Much | Winner |
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Sulaiman Addonia | Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Talia Hibbert | Take a Hint, Dani Brown | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Elisabeth Thomas | Catherine House | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills is Gold | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You.: Essays | Winner |
| 2021 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Alden Jones | The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Shayla Lawson | This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Natasha Sajé | Terroir: Love, Out of Place | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Poetry | Aricka Foreman | Salt Body Shimmer | Winner |
| 2021 | Bisexual Poetry | Jody Chan | sick | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Poetry | S*an D. Henry-Smith | Wild Peach | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Poetry | George Abraham | Birthright | Finalist |
| 2021 | Bisexual Poetry | Meghan Privitello | One God at a Time | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Winner |
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Winner |
| 2022 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Daisy Hernández | The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner |
| 2022 | Bisexual Poetry | Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Poetry | CM Burroughs | Master Suffering | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Poetry | Paige Quiñones | The Best Prey | Finalist |
| 2022 | Bisexual Poetry | Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Winner |
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | A. J. Bermudez | Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Akil Kumarasamy | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Bushra Rehman | Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Nishant Batsha | Mother Ocean Father Nation | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | Appropriate Behavior | Winner |
| 2023 | Bisexual Nonfiction | John Brady McDonald | Carrying It Forward | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Liz Scheier | Never Simple | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Nonfiction | Rachel Krantz | Open | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Nonfiction | CJ Hauser | The Crane Wife | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Poetry | Nicky Beer | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Winner |
| 2023 | Bisexual Poetry | Gabrielle Octavia Rucker | Dereliction | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Poetry | James Fujinami Moore | indecent hours | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Poetry | Karyna McGlynn | 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bisexual Poetry | Rebecca Hawkes | Meat Lovers | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Ling Ling Huang | Natural Beauty | Winner |
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Ruth Madievsky | All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Jennifer Savran Kelly | Endpapers | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Sarah James | Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Haley Jakobson | Old Enough | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Non-fiction | Myriam Gurba | Creep: Accusations and Confessions | Winner |
| 2024 | Bisexual Non-fiction | Vaneet Mehta | Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Non-fiction | Zachary Zane | Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Non-fiction | Eden Boudreau | Crying Wolf | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Non-fiction | Kawika Guillermo | Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Poetry | Danielle Cadena Deulen | Desire Museum | Winner |
| 2024 | Bisexual Poetry | Mary Jo Bang | A Film in Which I Play Everyone | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Poetry | Sierra DeMulder | Ephemera | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Poetry | Margaret Ray | Good Grief, the Ground | Finalist |
| 2024 | Bisexual Poetry | Paul Killebrew | Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge | Finalist |