Coffin Bone

Ansel Elkins, an Alabama native, won the 2014 Yale Series of Young Poets competition, a 2011 “Discovery”/ Boston Review Poetry Prize, and a 2011 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Believer, AGNI, The Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2013)