Year |
Winner |
Nominated |
1988 |
Dorothy Allison, Trash: Short Stories |
|
1989 |
Nisa Donnelly, The Bar Stories: A Novel After All |
|
1990 |
Paula Martinac, Out of Time |
|
1991 |
Blanche McCrary Boyd, The Revolution of Little Girls
Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories |
- Anna Livia, Minimax
- Judith McDaniel, Just Say Yes
- Diane Salvatore, Benediction
|
1992 |
Judith Katz, Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound |
|
1993 |
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body |
|
1994 |
Rebecca Brown, The Gifts of the Body |
|
1995 |
Jacqueline Woodson, Autobiography of a Family Photo |
|
1996 |
Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo |
- Carol Anshaw, Seven Moves
- Sarah Van Arsdale, Toward Amnesia
- Rebecca Brown, What Keeps Me Here
- Barbara Wilson, If You Had a Family
|
1997 |
Elana Dykewomon, Beyond the Pale |
|
1998 |
Dorothy Allison, Cavedweller |
|
1999 |
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet |
- Anna Livia, Bruised Fruit
- Terri de la Pena, Faults
- Elizabeth Stark, Shy Girl
- Barbara Wilson, Salt Water and Other Stories
|
2000 |
Michelle Tea, Valencia |
|
2001 |
Achy Obejas, Days of Awe[1] |
- Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You
- Alexandra Grilikhes, Yin Fire
- Erika Lopez, Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat
- Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back
|
2002 |
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith |
|
2003 |
Nina Revoyr, Southland |
|
2004 |
Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year |
|
2005 |
Abha Dawesar, Babyji |
|
2006 |
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch |
- J. D. Glass, Punk Like Me
- Leslie Larson, Slipstream
- Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Outrageous
- Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man’s Land
|
2007 |
Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers |
|
2008 |
Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls |
- Ivan Coyote, The Slow Fix
- Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland
- Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge
|
2009 |
Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception |
|
2010 |
Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet’s novel)[2] |
|
2011 |
Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement |
|
2012 |
Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found[3] |
|
2013 |
Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water[4] |
|
2014 |
Alexis De Veaux, Yabo |
|
2015 |
Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees |
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