Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. New work appears in The Georgia Review, Orion, Electric Literature, The Southern Review, and poets.org. Her honors include a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, and her writing and artist’s books have received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Penland School of Craft, and Marble House Project. Bell teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington, where she is the editor of Ecotone. She lives with her family near what’s now called the Cape Fear River.