Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St. Brigid Press. Her work appears in 32 Poems, the Southern Review, Subtropics, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Univerity of North Carolina Wilmington, where she has served since 2013 as editor of Ecotone, and calls ungendered Appalachian square dances in North Carolina and beyond.
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