Ansel Elkins
# Ansel Elkins

Ansel Elkins is an American poet and 2014 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Yale University Press published her collection Blue Yodel in 2015.

## Biography

Elkins was born and raised in northern Alabama. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from UNC Greensboro.

Elkins has also been a winner of a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the recipient of a 2013 NEA Creative Writing fellowship.

## Works

* Blue Yodel, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780300210026, OCLC 889576934
