| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 2007 | Blackbird and Wolf | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $25,000 | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| B. H. Fairchild | ||||
| John Koethe |
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He received his BA from the College of William and Mary in 1978, his MA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1980, and his MFA from Columbia University in 1982.