| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1999 | Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations | University Of Chicago Press | $25,000 | W. S. Di Piero |
| Mary Kinzie | ||||
| Eleanor Wilner |
In 1924, David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey. He completed his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served as a Sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.