Ferro-Grumley Award

The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBT fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley. It was co-founded in 1988 by Stephen Greco, who continues to direct it as of 2022.

First awarded in 1990, separate awards were presented for gay and lesbian fiction until 2008 when the awards were merged into a single award.

On two occasions, the award has been won by works that were not conventional literary fiction. In 1994, journalist John Berendt won the award for his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and in 2009, cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the award for her comic strip anthology The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.

Awards

Ferro-Grumley Award for Literary Excellence (1990–1996)

Award winners^[1]

Year	Category	Author	TItle	Result	Ref.
1990	Men	Dennis Cooper	Closer	Winner
	Women	Ruthann Robson	Eye of the Hurricane	Winner
1991	Men	Allen Barnett	The Body and Its Dangers	Winner
	Women	Cherry Muhanji	Her	Winner
1992	Men	Melvin Dixon	Vanishing Rooms	Winner
	Women	Blanche McCrary Boyd	The Revolution of Little Girls	Winner
1993	Men	Randall Kenan	Let the Dead Bury Their Dead	Winner
	Women	Dorothy Allison	Bastard Out of Carolina	Winner
1994	Men	John Berendt	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil[a]	Winner
	Women	Jeanette Winterson	Written on the Body	Winner
1995	Men	Mark Merlis	American Studies	Winner
	Women	Heather Lewis	House Rules	Winner
1996	Men	Felice Picano	Like People in History	Winner
	Women	Sarah Schulman	Rat Bohemia	Winner	[2]

Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1997–2007)

Award winners and finalists^[1]

Year	Author	TItle	Publisher	Result	|Ref.
1997	Andrew Holleran	The Beauty of Men		Winner
	J. S. Marcus	The Captain’s Fire		Finalist
	Michael Nava	The Death of Friends		Finalist
1998	Colm Tóibín	The Story of the Night		Winner
	Edmund White	The Farewell Symphony		Finalist
	Richard House	Bruiser		Finalist
1999	Michael Cunningham	The Hours		Winner
	Keith Ridgway	The Long Falling		Finalist
	Michael Lowenthal	The Same Embrace		Finalist
2000	Paul Russell	The Coming Storm	St. Martin’s Press	Winner	[3]
	Matthew Stadler	Allan Stein	Grove	Finalist
	Michael Downing	Breakfast with Scot	Counterpoint	Finalist
2001	Edmund White	The Married Man	Alfred A. Knopf	Winner
	Bernard Cooper	Guess Again: Stories	Simon and Schuster	Finalist
	David Leavitt	Martin Bauman; Or, A Sure Thing	Houghton Mifflin	Finalist
2002	David Ebershoff	The Rose City	Viking Press	Winner
	Alexander Chee	Edinburgh	Welcome Rain Publishers	Finalist
	JT LeRoy	The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things	Bloomsbury	Finalist
2003	Jamie O’Neill	At Swim, Two Boys	Scribner	Winner
	Brian Malloy	The Year of Ice	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
	Michael Lowenthal	Avoidance	Graywolf Press	Finalist
2004	Trebor Healey	Through It Came Bright Colors	Harrington Park Press	Winner
	Christopher Bram	Lives of the Circus Animals	William Morrow	Finalist
	John Rowell	The Music of Your Life	Simon and Schuster	Finalist
2005	Adam Berlin	Belmondo Style	St. Martin’s Press	Winner
	Colm Tóibín	The Master	Scribner	Finalist
	Jim Tushinski	Van Allen’s Ecstasy	Southern Tier Editions	Finalist
2006	Barry McCrea	The First Verse	Carroll & Graf	Winner	[4]
	Darren Greer	Still Life with June	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
	Douglas A. Martin	Branwell	Soft Skull Press	Finalist
2007	Christopher Bram	Exiles in America	William Morrow	Winner	[5]
	Martin Hyatt	A Scarecrow’s Bible	Suspect Thoughts Press	Finalist
	Stephen McCauley	Alternatives to Sex	Simon and Schuster	Finalist

Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1997–2007)

Award winners and finalists^[1]

Year	Author	TItle	Publisher	Result	|Ref.
1997	Persimmon Blackbridge	Sunnybrook		Winner
	Jenifer Levin	Love and Death and Other Stories		Finalist
	Margaret Ehrhart	Old Love		Finalist
1998	Elana Dykewomon	Beyond the Pale		Winner
	Ann-Marie MacDonald	Fall on Your Knees		Finalist
	Shay Youngblood	Soul Kiss		Finalist
1999	Patricia Powell	The Pagoda		Winner
	Ali Smith	Like		Finalist
	Jewelle Gomez	Don’t Explain		Finalist
2000	Judy Doenges	What She Left Me	Middlebury Press	Winner
	Elizabeth Stark	Shy Girl	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Sarah Waters	Tipping the Velvet	Riverhead	Finalist
2001	Sarah Waters	Affinity	Riverhead	Winner
	Eileen Myles	Cool for You	Soft Skull Press	Finalist
	Jane Summer	The Silk Road	Alyson Books	Finalist
2002	Emma Donoghue	Slammerkin	Harcourt	Winner
	Achy Obejas	Days of Awe	Ballantine	Finalist
	Ann Wadsworth	Light Coming Back	Alyson Books	Finalist
2003	Carol Anshaw	Lucky in the Corner	Houghton Mifflin	Winner
	Jane Eaton Hamilton	Hunger	Oberon Press	Finalist
	Zoé Valdés	Dear First Love	HarperCollins	Finalist
2004	Nina Revoyr	Southland	Akashic Books	Winner
	Alison Bechdel	Dykes & Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For	Alyson Books	Finalist
	Rebecca Brown	The End of Youth	City Lights	Finalist
2005	Stacey D’Erasmo	A Seahorse Year	Houghton Mifflin	Winner
	Emma Donoghue	Life Mask	Harcourt	Finalist
	Heather Lewis	Notice	Serpent’s Tail	Finalist
2006	Patricia Grossman	Brian in Three Seasons	Permanent Press	Winner	[4]
	Brenda Brooks	Gotta Find Me an Angel	Raincoast Books	Finalist
	Ivan E. Coyote	Loose End	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
2007	Lisa Carey	Every Visible Thing	William Morrow	Winner	[5]
	Ivan E. Coyote	Bow Grip	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	Rebecca Brown	The Last Time I Saw You	City Lights	Finalist

Ferro Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (2008-present)

Award winners and finalists^[1]

Year	Author	TItle	Publisher	Result	|Ref.
2008[b]	Peter Cameron	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You	Frances Foster Books	Winner	[6]
	Ali Liebegott	The IHOP Papers	Carroll & Graf	Winner	[6]
	Brian Malloy	Brendan Wolf		Finalist
	André Aciman	Call Me by Your Name	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Sarah Schulman	The Child	Carroll & Graf	Finalist
	Felicia Luna Lemus	Like Son	Akashic Books	Finalist
	Armistead Maupin	Michael Tolliver Lives	HarperCollins	Finalist
2009[c]	Alison Bechdel	The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Winner	[7]
	Andrew Sean Greer	The Story of a Marriage	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Benjamin Taylor	The Book of Getting Even	Steerforth	Finalist
	Blair Mastbaum	Us Ones in Between	Running Press	Finalist
	David Ebershoff	The 19th Wife	Random House	Finalist
	Ellen Wittlinger	Love and Lies	Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers	Finalist
2010	Sebastian Stuart	The Hour Between	Alyson Books	Winner
	Barb Johnson	More of This World or Maybe Another	HarperPerennial	Finalist
	Eleanor Lerman	The Blonde on the Train	Mayapple Press	Finalist
	G. Winston James	Shaming the Devil	Top Pen Press	Finalist
	Jill Malone	A Field Guide to Deception	Bywater Books	Finalist
	Vestal McIntyre	Lake Overturn	Harper	Finalist
2011	Michael Sledge	The More I Owe You	Counterpoint Press	Winner	[8]
	Daniel Allen Cox	Krakow Melt	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	Daniel Black	Perfect Peace	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
	David McConnell	The Silver Hearted	Alyson Books	Finalist
	Eileen Myles	Inferno	OR Books	Finalist
	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	The Big Bang Symphony	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
2012	Paul Russell	The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov	Cleis Press	Winner
	Alan Hollinghurst	The Stranger's Child	Alfred A. Knopf	Finalist
	Bob Smith	Remembrance of Things I Forgot	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
	Rahul Mehta	Quarantine	HarperPerennial	Finalist
	Shannon Cain	The Necessity of Certain Behaviors	University of Pittsburgh Press	Finalist
	Suzette Mayr	Monoceros	Coach House Press	Finalist
2013	Trebor Healey	A Horse Named Sorrow	University of Wisconsin Press	Winner	[9]
	Abdellah Taïa	An Arab Melancholia	Semiotex[e]	Finalist
	Barry Webster	The Lava in My Bones	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist	[10]
	Ellen Ullman	By Blood	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Ken Anderson	Sea Change	Starbooks Press	Finalist
	Perry Brass	King of Angels	Belhue Press	Finalist
2014	Sara Farizan	If You Could Be Mine	Algonquin Young Readers	Winner	[11][12]
	Allan Gurganus	Local Souls	Liveright	Finalist	[13]
	Christopher Castellani	All This Talk of Love	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Finalist	[13]
	David Leavitt	The Two Hotel Francforts	Bloomsbury USA	Finalist	[13]
	Sheri Joseph	Where You Can Find Me	Thomas Dunne Books	Finalist	[13]
2015	Bernardine Evaristo	Mr. Loverman	Akashic Books	Winner	[14]
	Barry Brennessel	Sideways Down the Sky	MLR Press	Finalist
	Judith Frank	All I Love and Know	William Morrow	Finalist
	Raziel Reid	When Everything Feels Like the Movies	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist	[15]
	Tom Spanbauer	I Loved You More	Hawthorne Books	Finalist
2016	Michael Golding	A Poet of the Invisible World	Picador	Winner	[16]
	Chinelo Okparanta	Under the Udala Trees	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist	[17]
	Hanya Yanagihara	A Little Life	Doubleday	Finalist
	Lori Ostlund	After the Parade	Scribner	Finalist
	Mark Merlis	JD	Terrace Books	Finalist
2017	Cathleen Schine	They May Not Mean To, But They Do	Sarah Crichton Books	Winner	[18][19]
	Alan Lessik	The Troubleseeker	Chelsea Station Editions	Finalist
	Darren Greer	Advocate	Cormorant Books	Finalist	[20]
	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	A Thin Bright Line	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
	Sjón, trans. by Victoria Cribb	Moonstone	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
2018	Alistair McCartney	The Disintegrations	University of Wisconsin Press	Winner	[21]
	Carmen Maria Machado	Her Body and Other Parties	Graywolf Press	Finalist
	John Boyne	The Heart's Invisible Furies	Hogarth	Finalist
	Matthew Lansburgh	Outside Is the Ocean	University of Iowa Press	Finalist
	Paula Martinac	The Ada Decades	Bywater Books	Finalist
2019	John R. Gordon	Drapetomania	Team Angelica	Winner	[22]
	Andrea Kleine	Eden	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist	[23]
	John Boyne	A Ladder to the Sky	Hogarth	Finalist	[23]
	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	The Evolution of Love	Rare Bird	Finalist	[23]
	Sarah Winman	Tin Man	Putnam	Finalist	[23]
2020	Ocean Vuong	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous	Penguin Press	Winner	[24][25]
	Bernardine Evaristo	Girl, Woman, Other	Black Cat	Finalist	[26]
	Elizabeth Earley	Like Wings, Your Hands	Red Hen Press	Finalist	[26]
	Jacqueline Woodson	Red at the Bone	Riverhead	Finalist	[26]
	Janice Gould (ed.)	A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant	Sinister Wisdom	Finalist	[26]
	Philippe Besson; trans. by Molly Ringwald	Lie with Me	Scribner	Finalist	[26]
2021	Juli Delgado Lopera	Fiebre Tropical	Feminist Press	Winner	[27][28]
	Bishakh Som	Apsara Engine	Feminist Press	Finalist
	Bryan Washington	Memorial	Riverhead	Finalist
	Joon Oluchi Lee	Neotenica	Nightboat Books	Finalist
	Katharina Volckmer	The Appointment	Avid Reader Press	Finalist
2022	Anthony Veasna So	Afterparties	Ecco	Winner	[29][30]
	Buki Papillon	An Ordinary Wonder	Pegasus Books	Finalist
	Eddy Boudel Tan	The Rebellious Tide	Dundurn Press	Finalist
	Jeanne Thornton	Summer Fun	Soho Press	Finalist
	Melissa Broder	Milk Fed	Scribner	Finalist
2023	James Hannaham	Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner	[31][32]
	Chelene Knight	Junie	Book*hug Press	Finalist
	Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner	Call Me Cassandra	Farrar Straus Giroux	Finalist
	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan	Big Girl	Liveright	Finalist
	Rachel M. Harper	The Other Mother	Counterpoint	Finalist
	Zain Khalid	Brother Alive	Grove Atlantic	Finalist
2024	Helen Elaine Lee	Pomegranate	Atria Books	Winner	[33][34]
	Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	Chain-Gang All-Stars	Penguin Random House	Finalist	[35]
	Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, trans. by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch	Dandelion Daughter	Esplanade Books	Finalist	[35]
	Emily Zhou	Girlfriends	LittlePuss Press	Finalist	[35]
	Oksana Vasyakina, trans. by Elina Alter	Wound	Catapult Books	Finalist	[35]

Notes

1. Presented a special award for distinguished nonfiction
2. In 2008, seven authors competed for two prizes under a single category.
3. Starting in 2009, 5-6 finalists competed for a single award.

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External links

• Publishing Triangle Awards