| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 2013 | Unpeopled Eden | Four Way Books | $25,000 | Kwame Dawes |
| Alicia Suskin Ostriker | ||||
| Susan Stewart |
Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California, on July 18, 1970, but lived in Michoacán, Mexico, until the age of ten. The son of migrant farm workers, González traveled between the United States and Mexico for much of his childhood. He earned a degree in Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and an MFA from Arizona State University in Tempe.