title: Ansel Elkins
text: # 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
  