| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1982 | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | Random House | $1,000 | William Arrowsmith |
Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, and he attended Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale. In 1973 he began studying Zen practice with Zen Master Seung Sahn.