Ansel Elkins is an American poet and 2014 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
[1] Yale University Press published her collection Blue Yodel in 2015.
[2] Elkins was born and raised in northern Alabama.
She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from UNC Greensboro.
[3] Elkins has also been a winner of a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize[4] and the recipient of a 2013 NEA Creative Writing fellowship.