| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1994 | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $1,000 | David Ferry |
On October 20, 1940, Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He received a BA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing, and studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters.