| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 2021 | Martian | Nomadic Press | $5,000 | Mark Bibbins |
| Aimee Nezhukumatathil | ||||
| Ladan Osman |
James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2018), winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. His second book of poems, Martian (Nomadic Press, 2022), received the 2021 James Laughlin Award.