| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 2003 | Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy | $1,000 | Rika Lesser |
Anselm Hollo was born on April 12, 1934 in Helsinki, Finland. He wrote more than thirty books, including the essay collection Caws & Causeries and Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000, which received the San Francisco Poetry Center’s Book Award for 2001.