| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1992 | Wildwood Flower | Louisiana State University Press | $5,000 | Lucille Clifton |
| Jorie Graham | ||||
| Robert Morgan |
Kathryn Stripling Byer grew up in southwest Georgia, graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied with Allen Tate, Fred Chappell, and Robert Watson.