# 34th Lambda Literary Awards

The 34th Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 11, 2022 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2021.
Nominees were announced in March 2022.

## Special awards

Special awards recipients :
| Category | Winner |
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Vi Khi Nao and Silas House |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Ching-In Chen and Morgan Thomas |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Kalynn Bayron |

## Nominees and winners

34th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Bisexual Fiction | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Winner |
| Bisexual Fiction | S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Winner |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | Finalist |
| 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 |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner |
| Bisexual Poetry | Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | CM Burroughs | Master Suffering | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Paige Quiñones | The Best Prey | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Brontez Purnell | 100 Boyfriends | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Selva Almada | Brickmakers | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Jaime Cortez | Gordo | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Yang Huang | My Good Son | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Paul Mendez | Rainbow Milk | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | Winner |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Rajiv Mohabir | Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | John Paul Brammer | Hola Papi | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Peter Staley | Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Luis Felipe Fabre with JD Pluecker (trans.) | Writing with Caca / Escribir con Caca | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Nicholas Wong | Besiege Me | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Walsh | Creep Love | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Miguel Murphy | Shoreditch | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Derrick Austin | Tenderness | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | Winner |
| Gay Romance | Sander Santiago | Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | John Patrick | Dublin Bay | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Lance Ringel | Floridian Nights | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Farhad J. Dadyburjor | The Other Man | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Mia McKenzie | Skye Falling | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Lauren Groff | Matrix | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Kirstin Valdez Quade | The Five Wounds | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Venita Blackburn | How to Wrestle a Girl | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Kristen Arnett | With Teeth | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Sophie Santos | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) | Winner |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Grace Perry | The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Leslie Cohen | The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Jonathan Ned Katz | The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Adele Bertei | Why Labelle Matters | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Tamiko Beyer | Last Days | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Rosamond S. King | All the Rage | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Grace Lau | The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Donika Kelly | The Renunciations: Poems | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Arisa White | Who’s Your Daddy | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | Milena McKay | The Headmistress | Winner |
| Lesbian Romance | Jae | Chemistry Lessons | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | E. J. Noyes | Go Around | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | Haley Cass | In the Long Run | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | Gerri Hill | Red Tide at Heron Bay | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | Winner |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo | Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (eds.) | Queer Nightlife | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller (eds.) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | JR Ford and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | Winner |
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | Ashley Herring Blake | Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | Charlotte Sullivan Wild with Charlene Chua (illus.) | Love, Violet | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | Rob Sanders | Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester | The Fabulous Zed Watson! | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | Winner |
| LGBTQ Drama | Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | storäe michele | mama [rose.] | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | Kheven LaGrone | Pillow Talk | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | L M Feldman | Thrive, or What You Will {an epic} | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Samuel R. Delany | Big Joe | Winner |
| LGBTQ Erotica | MJ Lyons | Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Tab Kimpton and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.) | Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Tab Kimpton and Jade Sarson (eds.) | Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Levi Huxton | The Lodger, That Summer | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | Winner |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Crystal Frasier and Val Wise with Oscar O. Jupiter (lettering) | Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Syan Rose | Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Hiromi Goto with Ann Xu (illus.) | Shadow Life | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Kat Leyh | Thirsty Mermaids | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | John Copenhaver | The Savage Kind | Winner |
| LGBTQ Mystery | P.J. Vernon | Bath Haus | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Jennifer Hanlon Wilde | Finding the Vein | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Michael Nava | Lies With Man | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Stephen Spotswood | Murder Under Her Skin | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 | Winner |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Melissa Febos | Girlhood | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Akwaeke Emezi | Dear Senthuran | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Adam Zmith | Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Kazim Ali | Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Cadwell Turnbull | No Gods, No Monsters | Winner |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Honni van Rijswijk | Breeder | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Olivia Tapiero with Kit Schluter (trans.) | Phototaxis | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Neon Yang | The Tensorate Series | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner |
| LGBTQ Studies | Gila Ashtor | Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | C. Winter Han | Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Leah DeVun | The Shape of Sex | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Howard Chiang | Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | A.R Capetta | The Heartbreak Bakery | Winner |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Adiba Jaigirdar | Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Isaac Fitzsimons | The Passing Playbook | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Linsey Miller | What We Devour | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Jeanne Thornton | Summer Fun | Winner |
| Transgender Fiction | Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Callum Angus | A Natural History of Transition | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Megan Milks | Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Da’Shaun Harrison | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | Winner |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Francisco Galarte | Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Ivan Coyote | Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (eds.) | Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Lucie Fielding | Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Mason J | Crossbones on My Life | Winner |
| Transgender Poetry | Dani Putney | Salamat sa Intersectionality | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Lindsay Choi | Transverse | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Andrea Abi-Karam | Villainy | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Raquel Salas Rivera | x/ex/exis | Finalist |