| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 2006 | Poeta en San Francisco | Tinfish Press | $5,000 | James Longenbach |
| Susan Stewart | ||||
| Elizabeth Alexander |
In 1971, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University.