Norma Farber First Book Award

• Year — Winner — Title — Judge • 2026 — Esther Lin — Cold Thief Place — Maya C. Popa • 2025 — Jimin Seo — OSSIA — Phillip B. Williams • 2024 — Simon Shieh — Master — Rio Cortez • 2023 — Paul Hlava Ceballos — banana — Chase Berggrun • 2022 — Amanda Larson — Gut (Omnidawn) — Mark Bibbins • 2021 — Taylor Johnson — Inheritance — Francine J. Harris • 2020 — Zaina Alsous — A Theory of Birds — Matthew Shenoda • 2019 — Anna Maria Hong — Age of Glass — Geoffrey G. O'Brien • 2018 — Eve L. Ewing — Electric Arches — Elizabeth Macklin • 2017 — Vincent Toro — Stereo. Island. Mosaic. — Natalie Diaz • 2016 — Magdalena Zurawski — [Companion Animal] — Jennifer Moxley • 2015 — Cathy Linh Che — Split — Adrian Matejka • 2014 — r. erica doyle — proxy — Maggie Nelson • 2013 — Nick Twemlow — Palm Tree — Timothy Liu • 2012 — Emily Kendal Frey — The Grief Performance — Dana Levin • 2011 — John Beer — The Wasteland and Other Poems — Bin Ramke • 2010 — Scott Coffel — Toucans in the Arctic — Edward Hirsch • 2009 — Richard Deming — Let’s Not Call It Consequence — Martha Ronk • 2008 — Catherine Imbriglio — Parts of the Mass — Thylias Moss • 2007 — Kate Colby — Fruitlands — Rosmarie Waldrop • 2006 — Cammy Thomas — Cathedral of Wish — Medbh McGuckian • 2005 — Karen An-hwei Lee — In Medias Res — Cole Swensen • 2004 — Brenda Coultas — A Handmade Museum — Lyn Hejinian • 2003 — Sean Singer — Discography — Allen Grossman • 2002 — Jennifer Michael Hecht — The Next Ancient World — David Lehman • 2001 — V. Penelope Pelizzon — Nostos — August Kleinzahler • 2000 — Lisa Lubasch — How Many More of Them Are You? — John Yau • 1999 — Hettie Jones — Drive: Poems — Naomi Shihab Nye • 1998 — Rebecca Reynolds — Daughter of the Hangnail — Ann Lauterbach • 1997 — Susan Yuzna — Her Slender Dress — Michael Weaver • 1995 — Barbara Hamby — Delirium • 1994 — Sophie Cabot Black — The Misunderstanding of Nature • 1993 — Susan Wheeler — Bag O' Diamonds — James Tate • 1992 — Timothy Liu — Vox Angelica — Carolyn Forche • 1991 — Karl Kirchwey — A Wandering Island