| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1996 | The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $25,000 | Mark Doty |
| Susan Mitchell | ||||
| Mary Oliver |
On October 20, 1940, Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He received a BA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing.