| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1977 | The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe | Doubleday | $5,000 | William Stafford |
After winning the Whitman Award, Laura Gilpin became a registered nurse and worked in medical care for the rest of her life. Gilpin died in 2007, at her home in Fairhope, Alabama, at the age of fifty-six.