Ansel Elkins

Ansel Elkins is from Talladega, Alabama. Her first book, Blue Yodel (Yale University Press, 2015), won the 2014 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The Believer, the New York Review of Books, Oxford American, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. She has been the recipient of a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and others. She teaches at Berea College in Kentucky.