| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 2003 | Notes from the Divided Country | Louisiana State University Press | $5,000 | Yusef Komunyakaa |
Born in 1969, Suji Kwock Kim was educated at Yale College; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow.