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]

Ansel Elkins
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSarah Lawrence College,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
GenrePoetry

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]

Works
  • Blue yodel, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780300210026, OCLC 889576934

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. "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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