Bio:
As the author of the poetry collection From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press), Virginia Bell
has new work forthcoming in Hypertext Review and Denver Quarterly. Her poems, essays,
and reviews have appeared in riverSedge, Kettle Blue Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal,
Gargoyle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Keats Letters Project, Blue Fifth
Review, Wicked Alice, Cider Press Review, and Voltage Poetry, among other journals and
anthologies. Bell’s poem “I Walk Into Every Room and Look for My Mother” won Honorable
Mention in the 2019 riverSedge Poetry prize, judged by José Antonio Rodriguez, her
lyric essay “Fish,” won a 2021 Meet Me @ 19th Street’s Chapter One Competition,
sponsored by Arch Street Press, and the lyric essay “Chicken” won the 2020 Nonfiction
Prize from NELLE. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of
Maryland, is Co-Editor of RHINO Poetry, and teaches at Loyola University Chicago.