| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1991 | The Cult of the Right Hand | Doubleday | $5,000 | Rita Dove |
In 1939, Elaine Terranova was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she came of age in a working class neighborhood. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Temple University in 1961 and an MFA from Vermont’s Goddard College in 1977.