Ansel Elkins Explained

Ansel Elkins
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Sarah Lawrence College,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Genre:Poetry
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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]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past Winners. Yale Series of Younger Poets. 2016-01-29. en-US.
  2. Book: Elkins. Ansel. Blue Yodel. 2015. Yale University Press. 9780300213775.
  3. Web site: Ansel Elkins NEA. www.arts.gov. 2016-01-29.
  4. Web site: Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest - Unterberg Poetry Center - Tisch Center for the Arts - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY. www.92y.org. 2016-01-29.