Anna Lena Phillips Bell
lecturer and editor of Ecotone
Kenan Hall 1273 | 910.962.7651 | phillipsal@uncw.edu
todointhenewyear.net
Background
MFA, Emerson College, 2006
BA, Guilford College, 2000
Publications
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Ornament (2017, University of North Texas Press, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) |
Anna Lena's work appears or is forthcoming in places including 32 Poems, Colorado Review, the Southern Review, the Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. VII: North Carolina, the Raintown Review, Southern Poetry Review, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Really System, Canary, and 111O.
Book Arts
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Forces of Attention no. 1, 2013 A print and essay designed to assist users in managing time spent online |
Honors & Awards
- Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2016
- North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 2015
- Virginia Center for Creative Arts residency, 2014
- Penland School of Crafts winter letterpress residency, 2013
- Southern Women Writers Conference Emerging Writers Award in poetry, 2012
- Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition, 2012
- Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities residency, 2012
- Durham County Arts Council Emerging Artist grant, 2011
- Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, 2009
- Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, 2008
Anna Lena Phillips Bell is editor of Ecotone and its sister imprint, Lookout Books. She teaches the Ecotone practicum as well as special-topics courses in publishing, including developmental editing, copyediting, and book arts. She formerly served as senior editor and book-review editor for American Scientist, covering ecology, art-science connections, and natural history; she remains a contributing editor for the magazine. She was a founding editor of Fringe, and poetry editor of the journal for its seven-year run. Her projects include A Pocket Book of Forms, a fine-press guide to poetic forms, and Forces of Attention, a series of printed objects designed to help people mediate their interactions with screened devices. She calls Appalachian square dances in piedmont North Carolina and beyond.
Online
Blog: todointhenewyear.tumblr.com
The Endearments: endearments.net
A poem and essay at Redux
