| Year | Title | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 2025 | "Drought Season" | $750 (Second Place) | Craig Santos Perez and Dr. Clara Deser. |
W. J. Herbert is the author of Dear Specimen (Beacon Press, 2021), a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series competition and the Maine Literary Book Award for Poetry.
Recipient of the 2022 Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry, Herbert lives in Portland, Maine, on Wabanaki homelands.