Author of Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around (Glass Lyre Press 2025) and From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press 2012), Virginia Bell won NELLE magazine’s Nonfiction Prize in 2020 for the personal essay, “Chicken,” and her poetry won Honorable Mention in the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize, judged by José Antonio Rodríguez. Her work has appeared in Newcity, Five Points, Denver Quarterly, SWWIM, Hypertext, EAP: The Magazine, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Rogue Agent, Gargoyle, Cider Press Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Bell is Co-Editor of RHINO Poetry and teaches at Loyola University Chicago.