# Leslie Feinberg Award

The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (formerly the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature) is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of literature on transgender themes. The award may be presented for work in any genre of literature; to be eligible, a work of poetry or fiction must be written by a transgender or gender variant author, while a work of non-fiction may be written or cowritten by a cisgender writer as long as it addresses transgender themes.
The award comes with a cash prize of USD1,000.

## Recipients

Award winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2016 | Nathanaël | The Middle Notebookes | Nightboat Books | Winner |
| 2016 | Corrina Bain | Debridement | Great Weather for Media | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jackson Wright Schultz | Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities | Dartmouth College Press | Finalist |
| 2016 | Maggie Nelson | The Argonauts | Graywolf Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | Vivek Shraya | Even This Page Is White | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner |
| 2017 | Jay Besemer | Chelate | Brooklyn Arts Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louise Plummer | A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder | University of Manitoba Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory | University of Arizona Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (ed.) | Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility | The MIT Press | Winner |
| 2018 | Amir Rabiyah | Prayers for My 17th Chromosome | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Danez Smith | Don’t Call Us Dead | Graywolf Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kai Cheng Thom | A Place Called No Homeland | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ely Shipley | Some Animal | Nightboat Books | Winner |
| 2019 | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | Bookthug Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jordy Rosenberg | Confessions of the Fox | One World/Random House | Finalist |
| 2019 | Joy Ladin | The Soul of the Stranger | Brandeis University Press | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kai Cheng Thom | I Hope We Choose Love | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner |
| 2020 | Arielle Twist | Disintegrate/Dissociate | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (ed.) | We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 | Nightboat Books | Finalist |
| 2020 | Hazel Jane Plante | The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) | Metonymy Press | Finalist |
| 2021 | Hil Malatino | Trans Care | University of Minnesota Press | Winner |
| 2021 | Akwaeke Emezi | The Death of Vivek Oji | Riverhead | Finalist |
| 2021 | Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (ed.) | We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry | Nightboat Books | Finalist |
| 2021 | S. Brook Corfman | My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites | Fordham University Press | Finalist |
| 2022 | Ari Banias | A Symmetry | W. W. Norton | Winner |
| 2022 | Casey Plett | A Dream of a Woman | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2022 | Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | One World | Finalist |
| 2022 | Zoë Playdon | The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes | Scribner | Finalist |
| 2023 | Wo Chan | Togetherness | Nightboat Books | Winner |
| 2023 | Cecilia Gentili | Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist | Little Puss Press | Finalist |
| 2023 | imogen xtian smith | stemmy things | Nightboat Books | Finalist |
| 2023 | Kemi Alabi | Against Heaven | Graywolf | Finalist |
| 2024 | Emily Zhou | Girlfriends | LittlePuss Press | Winner |
| 2024 | Oliver Radclyffe | Adult Human Male | Unbound Edition Press | Finalist |
| 2024 | Casey Plett | On Community | Biblioasis | Finalist |
| 2024 | Talia Bettcher, Marci Blackman, Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez, Cecilia Gentili, Kris Grey, Shereen Imayatulla, Nadine Rodriguez, Cassidy Scanlon, Catalina Schliebener Munoz, Red Washburn, Fitch Wilder, and Sarah Youngblood Gregory | Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms | Sinister Wisdom | Finalist |
| 2025 | Charlie J. Stephens | A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest | Torrey House Press | Finalist |
| 2025 | Emily Zhou | Dances of Time and Tenderness | Nightboat Books | Finalist |
| 2025 | Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (eds.) | El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities | Metonymy Press | Finalist |
| 2025 | Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | I Don’t Want to be Understood | Alice James Books | Finalist |