Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. New work appears in Orion, Poetry London, Ploughshares, and Lit Hub, among others. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature and the Winter Anthology Award, Bell teaches at UNC Wilmington and has served since 2013 as the editor of Ecotone. She lives with her family near what’s now called the Cape Fear River.