The following is a list of winners and shortlisted works of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, and is awarded and discusssed yearly at WisCon.
Winning titles are marked by a blue background.
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrospective Awards | Suzy McKee Charnas | Motherlines | Berkeley-Putnam | [1] |
| Walk to the End of the World | Ballantine | |||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Walker & Co. | ||
| Joanna Russ | The Female Man | Bantam | ||
| "When It Changed" in Again, Dangerous Visions | Doubleday | |||
| 1991 | Eleanor Arnason | A Woman of the Iron People | William Morrow | [2] |
| Gwyneth Jones | White Queen | Gollancz | ||
| John Barnes | Orbital Resonance | Tor | [3] | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Henry Holt & Co. | ||
| Mary Gentle | The Architecture of Desire | Bantam Press | ||
| Greer Ilene Gilman | Moonwise | NAL/Roc | ||
| Marge Piercy | He, She and It | Summit Books | ||
| 1992 | Maureen McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | Tor | [4] |
| Carol Emshwiller | Venus Rising | Edgewood Press | [5] | |
| Ian MacLeod | "Grownups" | |||
| Susan Moffett | Time, Line an Ever Rolling Stream | St. Martin's Press | ||
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | Harper Collins | ||
| Sue Thomas | Correspondence | The Women's Press | ||
| Lisa Tuttle | Lost Futures | Grafton | ||
| Elizabeth Vonarburg | In the Mother's Land | Bantam | ||
| 1993 | Niccola Griffith | Ammonite | Del Ray | [6] |
| Eleanor Arnason | Ring of Swords | Tor | [7] | |
| Margaret Atwood | The Robber Bride | Bantam | ||
| Sybil Claiborne | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Cleis Press | ||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | “Motherhood” in Full Spectrum 4 | Bantam | ||
| R. Garcia y Robertson | “The Other Magpie” | |||
| James Patrick Kelly | “Chemistry” | |||
| Laurie J. Marks | Dancing Jack | DAW | ||
| Ian McDonald | “Some Strange Desire” in The Best of Omni III | Omni Publications International Ltd. | ||
| Alice Nunn | Illicit Passage | Woman’s Redress Press | ||
| Paul Park | Coelestis | Harper Collins | ||
| 1994 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Matter of Seggri" | [8] | |
| Nancy Springer | Larque on the Wing | AvoNova | ||
| Eleanor Arnason | “The Lovers” | [9] | ||
| Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Tor | ||
| L. Warren Douglas | Cannon’s Orb | Del Ray | ||
| Greg Egan | “Cocoon” | |||
| Ellen Frye | Amazon Story Bones | Spinsters Ink | ||
| Gweneth Jones | North Wind | Gollancz | ||
| Graham Joyce | “Eat Reecebread” | |||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | “Forgiveness Day” | |||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | Harper | ||
| Rachel Pollack | Temporary Agency | St. Martin’s | ||
| Geoff Ryman | Unconquered Countries | St. Martin’s | ||
| Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Tor | ||
| Delia Sherman | “Young Woman in a Garden” in Xanadu | Tor | ||
| George Turner | Genetic Soldier | Morrow | ||
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hand | Waking the Moon | HarperPrism | [10] |
| Theodore Roszak | The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein | Random House | ||
| Kelley Eskridge | “And Salome Danced” in Little Deaths | Millennium / Dell Abyss | [11] | |
| Kit Reed | Little Sisters of the Apocalypse | Black Ice Books | ||
| Lisa Tuttle | “Food Man” | |||
| Terri Windling (ed.) | The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood’s Survivors | Tor | ||
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "Mountain Ways" | [12] | |
| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | Random House | ||
| Fred Chappell | “The Silent Woman” in Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You | St. Martin’s | [13] | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | “Beauty and the Opera, or The Phantom Beast” | |||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | “Welcome, Kid, to the Real World” | |||
| Alasdair Gray | A History Maker | Canongate Press / Harcourt Brace (revised edition) | ||
| Jonathan Lethem | “Five Fucks” in The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye | Harcourt Brace | ||
| Pat Murphy | Nadya | Tor | ||
| Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | St. Martin’s | ||
| Lisa Tuttle | The Pillow Friend | White Wolf | ||
| Tess Williams | “And She Was the Word” | |||
| Sue Woolfe | Leaning Towards Infinity | Vintage | ||
| 1997 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine | Tor | [14] |
| Kelly Link | “Travels With The Snow Queen” | |||
| Storm Constantine | “The Oracle Lips” in The Fortune Teller | Daw Books | [15] | |
| Paul Di Filippo | “Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens” | |||
| Emma Donoghue | Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins | Harper Collins | ||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | “The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi” | |||
| Molly Gloss | The Dazzle of Day | Tor | ||
| M. John Harrison | Signs of Life | St. Martin’s Press | ||
| Gwyneth Jones | “Balinese Dancer” | |||
| Ian McDonald | Sacrifice of Fools | Victor Gonzallencz | ||
| Vonda N. McIntyre | The Moon and the Sun | Pocket Books | ||
| Shani Mootoo | Cereus Blooms at Night | Press Gang Publishers | ||
| Salman Rushdie | “The Firebird’s Nest” | |||
| Paul Witcover | Waking Beauty | HarperPrism | ||
| 1998 | Raphael Carter | “Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation” in Starlight 2 | Tor | [16] |
| Eleanor Arnason | “The Gauze Banner” in More Amazing Stories | Tor | [17] | |
| Octavia Butler | Parable of the Talents | Seven Stories Press | ||
| Ted Chiang | “Story of Your Life” in Starlight 2 | Tor | ||
| Stella Duffy | Singling Out The Couples | Sceptre | ||
| Karen Joy Fowler | Black Glass | Henry Holt & Company | ||
| Maggie Gee | The Ice People | Richard Cohen Books | ||
| Carolyn Ives Gilman | Halfway Human | Avon Eos | ||
| Phyllis Gotlieb | Flesh and Gold | Tor | ||
| Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | Warner Aspect | ||
| Gweneth Jones | “La Cenerentola” | |||
| James Patrick Kelly | “Lovestory” | |||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | “Unchosen Love” in More Amazing Stories | Tor | ||
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | Dragon’s Winter | Ace/Berkley | ||
| Maureen F. McHugh | Mission Child | Avon Eos | ||
| Karl-Rene Moore | “The Hetairai Turncoat” in Wired Hard 2 | Circlet Press | ||
| Rebecca Ore | “Accelerated Grimace” | |||
| Sara Paretsky | Ghost Country | Delacorte Press | ||
| Severna Park | Hand of Prophecy | Avon Eos | ||
| Kit Reed | Weird Women, Wired Women | Wesleyan University Press | ||
| Kit Reed | “Bride of Bigfoot” in Weird Women, Wired Women | Wesleyan University Press | ||
| Robert Reed | “Whiptail” | |||
| Mary Rosenblum | “The Eye of God” | |||
| Joan Slonczewski | The Children Star | Tor | ||
| Martha Soukup | “The House of Expectations” in Starlight 2 | Tor | ||
| Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | Ace | ||
| Sarah Zettel | Playing God | Warner Aspect | ||
| 1999 | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Conqueror’s Child | Tor | [18] |
| Judy Budnitz | If I Told You Once | Picador USA/St. Martin’s | [19] | |
| Sally Caves | “In the Second Person” | |||
| Graham Joyce | “Pinkland” in Crossing the Border | Indigo | ||
| Yumiko Kurahashi | The Woman with the Flying Head: And Other Stories (Japanese Woman Writers in Translation) | M.E. Sharpe | ||
| Penelope Lively | “5001 Nights” in The Five Thousands and One Nights (European Short Stories, No. 4) | Fjord Pres, c/o Partners West | ||
| David E. Morse | The Iron Bridge | Harcourt Brace | ||
| Kim Stanley Robinson | “Sexual Dimorphism” | |||
| 2000 | Molly Gloss | Wild Life | Simon & Schuster | [20] |
| Michael Blumlein | “Fidelity: A Primer” | [21] | ||
| James L. Cambias | “Diagram of Rapture” | |||
| David Ebershoff | The Danish Girl | Viking | ||
| Mary Gentle | Ash: A Secret History | Victor Gollancz, London | ||
| Camille Henrandez-Ramdwar | “Soma” in Whispers from the CottonTree Root | Invisible Cities Press | ||
| Nalo Hopkinson (ed.) | “The Glass Bottle Trick” in Whispers from the Cotton TreeRoot | Invisible Cities Press | ||
| Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | Warner Aspect | ||
| China Mieville | Perdido Street Station | Macmillan UK Ltd., London | ||
| Pamela Mordecai | “Once on the Shores of the Strem Senegambia” in Whispers from the Cotton TreeRoot | Invisible Cities Press | ||
| Severna Park | The Annunciate | Eos | ||
| Tess Williams | Sea As Mirror | HarperCollins Voyager | ||
| 2001 | Hiromi Goto | The Kappa Child | Red Deer Press | [22] |
| Joan Givner | Half Known Lives | New Star Books | [23] | |
| Hugh Nissenson | The Song of the Earth | Algonquin Books | ||
| Ken MacLeod | Dark Light | Tor Books (US), Orbit (UK) | ||
| Sheri S. Tepper | The Fresco | Harper Collins/Eos | ||
| 2002 | M. John Harrison | Light | Victor Gollancz | [24] |
| John Kessel | “Stories for Men” | |||
| Eleanor Arnason | “Knapsack Poems” | [25] | ||
| Ted Chiang | “Liking What You See: A Documentary” in Stories of Your Life and Others | Tor | ||
| John Clute | Appleseed | Tor Books (US), Orbit (UK) | ||
| Karen Joy Fowler | “What I Didn’t See” | |||
| Gregory Frost | “Madonna of the Maquiladora” | |||
| Shelley Jackson | The Melancholy of Anatomy | Anchor Books | ||
| Larissa Lai | Salt Fish Girl | Thomas Allen & Son, Ltd. (CA) | ||
| Peter Straub (ed.) | Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists | |||
| 2003 | Matt Ruff | Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls | Harper Collins | [26] |
| Carol Emshwiller | “Boys” | [27] | ||
| Geoff Ryman | “Birth Days” | |||
| Kara Dalkey | “Lady of the Ice Garden” in Firebirds | Firebird | ||
| Kij Johnson | “Fudoki” | |||
| Kim Antieau | “Coyote Cowgirl” | |||
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | “A Fistfull of Sky” | |||
| Christina Flook, pseudonym of Richard Calder | “The Catgirl Manifesto” in Album Zutique #1 | Ministry of Whimsy | ||
| Ruth Nestvold | “Looking Through Lace” | |||
| Sandra McDonald | “The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill” | |||
| Tricia Sullivan | Maul | Orbit | ||
| 2004 | Joe Haldeman | Camouflage | [28] | |
| Johanna Sinisalo | Not Before Sundown | |||
| A.S. Byatt | Little Black Book of Stories | [29] | ||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | Love’s Body, Dancing in Time | |||
| Carol Emshwiller | “All of Us Can Almost …” | |||
| Nancy Farmer | The Sea of Trolls | |||
| Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others | |||
| Gwyneth Jones | Life | |||
| Jaye Lawrence | “Kissing Frogs” | |||
| 2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air | St. Margin’s Griffin | [30] |
| Aimee Bender | Willful Creatures | Doubleday | [31] | |
| Margo Lanagan | “Wooden Bride” in Black Juice | Eos | ||
| Vonda N. McIntyre | “Little Faces” | |||
| Wen Spencer | A Brother’s Price | Roc | ||
| Wesley Stace | Misfortune | Back Bay Books | ||
| Mark W. Tiedemann | Remains | Benbella Books | ||
| 2006 | Shelley Jackson | Half Life | Harper Collins | [32] |
| Catherynne M. Valente | The Orphan’s Tales: in the Night Garden | Spectra Books | ||
| Andrea Hairston | Mindscape | Aqueduct Press | [33] | |
| Betsy James | Listening at the Gate | Atheneum | ||
| Ellen Kushner | The Privilege of the Sword | Spectra | ||
| James Morrow | The Last Witchfinder | Morrow | ||
| Karen Russell | St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Knopf | ||
| Karen Traviss | Matriarch | Eos | ||
| Mark von Schlegell | Venusia | Semiotext(e) | ||
| 2006 Special Recognition | Julie Philips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | St. Martin’s | [32] |
| 2007 | Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army | Faber & Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (American 2008) | [34] |
| Kelley Eskridge | Dangerous Space | Aqueduct Press | [35] | |
| Laurie Marks | Water Logic | Small Beer Press | ||
| Karen Miller | Empress of Mijak and The Riven Kingdom | HarperCollins (Australia) | ||
| Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu | The Shadow Speaker | Hyperion | ||
| Delia Sherman | Interfictions | |||
| Charles Stross | Glasshouse | Ace | ||
| Sheri S. Tepper | The Margarets | HarperCollins | ||
| Brian K. Vaughan | Y: The Last Man | DC/Vertigo Comics | ||
| Ysabeau Wilce | Flora Segunda | Harcourt | ||
| 2008 | Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Walker (UK) and Candlewick Press (US) | [36] |
| Nisi Shawl | Filter House | Aqueduct Press | ||
| Christopher Barzak | The Love We Share Without Knowing | Bantam | [37] | |
| Jenny Davidson | The Explosionist | HarperTeen | ||
| Gregory Frost | Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel | Del Rey | ||
| Alison Goodman | The Two Pearls of Wisdom Published in the United States as Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Published in the United Kingdom as Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye |
HarperCollins Australia / Viking | ||
| John Kessel | Pride and Prometheus | Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | ||
| Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Knopf | ||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Lavinia | Harcourt | ||
| John Ajvide Lindqvist | Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) | Quercus (UK) | ||
| Paul Park | A Princess of Roumania, The Tourmaline, The White Tyger, The Hidden World | Tor | ||
| Ekaterina Sedia | The Alchemy of Stone | Prime Books | ||
| Ali Smith | Girl Meets Boy | Canongate U.S. | ||
| Ysabeau S. Wilce | Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) | Harcourt | ||
| 2009 | Greer Gilman | Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales | Small Beer Press | [38] |
| Fumi Yoshinaga | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | VIZ Media | ||
| Alice Sola Kim | “Beautiful White Bodies” | online at Strange Horizons 2009.12.07-14 | [39] | |
| Vandana Singh | Distances | Aqueduct Press | ||
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | “Galapagos” in Eclipse 3, edited by Jonathan Strahan | Night Shade Books | ||
| Jo Walton | Lifelode | NESFA Press | ||
| Maureen F. McHugh | “Useless Things” in Eclipse 3, edited by Jonathan Strahan | Night Shade Books | ||
| Paul Haines | “Wives” in X6 edited by Keith Stevenson | coeur de lion | ||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | The Marq’ssan Cycle | Aqueduct Press | ||
| 2010 | Dubravka Ugresic | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg | [40] | |
| Amanda Downum | The Bone Palace | Orbit | [41] | |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | Orbit | ||
| Sandra McDonald | “Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover” | Strange Horizons | ||
| Sandra McDonald | “Drag Queen Astronaut” | Crossed Genres issue 24 | ||
| Helen Merrick | The Secret Feminist Cabal | Aqueduct Press | ||
| Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | DAW | ||
| Kari Sperring | Living with Ghosts | DAW | ||
| Jillian Weise | The Colony | Soft Skull Press |