| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1990 | The City in Which I Love You | BOA Editions | $5,000 | Marvin Bell |
| Sandra McPherson | ||||
| Robert Morgan |
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. He attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport.