| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1986 | Bindweed | Macmillan | $5,000 | Anthony Hecht |
Christianne Balk grew up in Woodstock, New York. After studying biology at Grinnell College, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Balk’s second poetry collection, Desiring Flight, was published by Purdue University Press in 1995.