2008
Jennifer Culkin (nonfiction)
Joanne Dominique Dwyer (poetry)
Amy Leach (nonfiction)
Jolie Lewis (fiction)
Hasanthika Sirisena (fiction)
Therese Stanton (fiction)

2006
Rivka Galchen (fiction)
Ellen Litman (fiction)
Melissa Range (poetry)
Emily Rapp (fiction/nonfiction)
Rita Mae Reese (fiction/poetry)
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (nonfiction)

2004
Carin Clevidence (fiction)
Ann Harleman (fiction)
Dana Levin (poetry)
Michele Morano (nonfiction)
Tracy K. Smith (poetry)
Sharan Strange (poetry)

2002
Eula Biss (nonfiction/poetry)
Adrian Blevins (poetry)
Gabrielle Calvocoressi (poetry)
Ladette Randolph (nonfiction/fiction)
L.B. Thompson (poetry)
Kellie Wells (fiction)

2000
Trudy Dittmar (nonfiction)
Amy Havel (fiction)
Joanie V. Mackowski (poetry)
Leslie Ryan (nonfiction)
Julia Slavin (fiction)
Lisa Russ Spaar (poetry)

1998
Marilyn Abildskov (nonfiction)
Jody Bolz (poetry)
Lan Samantha Chang (fiction)
Megan Foss (nonfiction)
Stephanie Gunn (fiction)
Ellen Hinsey (poetry)
Marjorie Sandor (fiction)
Larissa Szporluk (poetry)

1996
Marina Budhos (fiction)
Olena Kalytiak Davis (poetry)
Tory Dent (poetry/nonfiction)
Laura Mullen (poetry)
Eileen Pollack (nonfiction/fiction)
Mary Szybist (poetry)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka (fiction)
Angela Yuan (poetry)