Ansel Elkins is an American poet and 2014 winner of the

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published her collection ''Blue Yodel'' in 2015.

Biography

Elkins was born and raised in northern Alabama. She received her BA from

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and an MFA from

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. Elkins has also been a winner of a Discovery/''Boston Review'' Poetry Prize and the recipient of a 2013 NEA Creative Writing fellowship. She was a 201
James Merrill House
Fellow.

Works

* ''Blue Yodel'', New Haven; London :

, 2015. ,

References

American women poets Living people 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers Poets from Alabama Sarah Lawrence College alumni University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Yale Younger Poets winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-poet-stub