Pattiann Rogers poems have won several prizes, including the Tietjens Prize and the Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, the Strousse Award twice from Prairie Schooner, three book awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, and four Pushcart Prizes.

She is a graduate of the University of Missouri (B.A.) and the University of Houston (M.A.) and has been a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, and the University of Arkansas and a member of the faculty of Vermont College.