Virginia Bell

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/