| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1995 | Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything | Louisiana State University Press | $5,000 | Robert Pinsky |
Jan Richman lives in San Francisco, California. Her honors include a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Felix Pollack Poetry Prize, and the Celia B. Wagner Award.