| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1980 | Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump | William Morrow & Co | $5,000 | Robert Penn Warren |
David Bottoms was born in 1949 in Canton, Georgia. His most recent work includes Waltzing through the Endtime (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), Vagrant Grace (1999), and Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems (1995).