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Virginia Bell [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Evanston, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
virginiabellwriter@gmail.com
Bio: 

Virginia Bell is the author of the lyric essay “Chicken,” winner of the 2020 nonfiction prize from NELLE literary magazine, as well as the poetry collection From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press 2012).  Her poems, essays, and reviews have also appeared in RiversEdge, Kettle Blue Review, Hypertext Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gargoyle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Keats Letters Project, Blue Fifth Review, Wicked Alice, Cider Press Review, and voltagepoetry.com, among other journals and anthologies. Most recently, she contributed a pantoum stanza to the book-length collaborative poem American Gun, forthcoming from Big Shoulders Books. Bell holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature; she is an Editor with RHINO Poetry and teaches literature at Loyola University Chicago. https://www.virginia-bell.com/ [2]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Twitter/X: 
@Virgini01124662
Born in: 
Lahore
Pakistan
Raised in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://www.virginia-bell.com [3]
Prizes won: 

Winner of Three Sisters Creative Nonfiction Prize from NELLE 2020 for lyric essay "Chicken."

Honorable Mention from 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize for "I Walk Into Every Room and Look for My Mother."

What I'm reading now: 
Figuring by Maria Popova
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
Writers Retreats: 
Ragdale
Identifies as: 
Feminist
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/virginia_bell [2] https://www.virginia-bell.com/ [3] https://www.virginia-bell.com