Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could (Waywiser Books, March 2026), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Ornament (University of North Texas Press, 2017), winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs (St Brigid Press, 2020). Her artist’s books have been exhibited at Abecedarian Gallery and Asheville BookWorks. Bell teaches at University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the editor of Ecotone. A chapbook of her object poems is forthcoming from Bull City Press in 2027. (Updated 04/2026)