Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of the chapbook Smaller Songs (St Brigid Press, 2020) and Ornament (University of North Texas Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, the Sewanee Review, and Subtropics. She is the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in poetry and the winner of the 2021 Winter Anthology Contest. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the editor of Ecotone.  

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