According to the Tiptree website, the 2010 Tiptree Award goes to Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugresic (Canongate, 2010).

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg impressed with its power and its grace. Tiptree juror Jessa Crispin explains that the beginning of the book “does not scream science fiction or fantasy. It starts quietly, with a meditation on the author’s aging mother, and the invisibility of the older woman…. But things shift wholly in the second act, with a surreal little tale of three old ladies, newly moneyed, who check into an Eastern European health spa. There’s another revolution in the third act, where what looks like a scholarly examination of the Russian fairy tale hag erupts into a rallying cry for mistreated and invisible women everywhere.”

Crispin notes that the fairy tale figure Baba Yaga is the witch, the hag, the inappropriate wild woman, the marginalized and the despised. She represents inappropriateness, wilderness, and confusion. “She’s appropriate material for Ugresic, who was forced into exile from Croatia for her political beliefs. The jurors feel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is a splendid representation of this type of woman, so cut out of today’s culture.”

Honor list:

• The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum (Orbit 2010)
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit 2010)
• “Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover” by Sandra McDonald (published as “Diana Comet,” Strange Horizons, March 2 & March 9, 2009)
• “Drag Queen Astronaut” by Sandra McDonald (Crossed Genres issue 24, November 2010)
• The Secret Feminist Cabal by Helen Merrick (Aqueduct Press 2009)
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW 2010)
• Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring (DAW 2009)
• The Colony by Jillian Weise (Soft Skull Press 2010)

Long list:

• Beth Bernobich, Passion Play (Tor 2010)
• Stevie Carroll, “The Monitors” (Echoes of Possibilities, edited by Aleksandr Volnov, Noble Romance Publishing 2010)
• Roxane Gay, “Things I Know About Fairy Tales” (Necessary Fiction, May 13, 2009)
• Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island (MacMillan 2009)
• Julia Holmes, Meeks (Small Beer Press 2010)
• Malinda Lo, Ash (Little, Brown 2009)
• Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone Books 2010)
• Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (Doubleday 2009)
• Rachel Swirsky, “Eros, Philia, Agape” (Tor.com, March 3, 2009)

Congratulations to all!