Ansel Elkins

Ansel Elkins is an American poet and 2014 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.[1] Yale University Press published her collection Blue Yodel in 2015.[2]

Biography

Elkins was born and raised in northern Alabama. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from UNC Greensboro.[3]

Elkins has also been a winner of a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize[4] and the recipient of a 2013 NEA Creative Writing fellowship.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Past Winners". Yale Series of Younger Poets. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  2. ↑ Elkins, Ansel (2015). Blue Yodel. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300213775.
  3. 1 2 "Ansel Elkins | NEA". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  4. ↑ "Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest - Unterberg Poetry Center - Tisch Center for the Arts - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY". www.92y.org. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
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