Meet Our Readers: Virginia Bell

Virginia Bell is the author of the poetry collection From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press 2012). She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and a finalist for both the Lamar York Prize in Creative Nonfiction, sponsored by The Chattahoochee Review and the Center for Women Writers' Creative Nonfiction Contest. Her work is forthcoming in Hypertext and has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Cider Press Review, Gargoyle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cloudbank, Poet Lore, Pebble Lake Review, Wicked Alice, and other journals and anthologies. Bell is a Senior Editor with RHINO Poetry, and an adjunct professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and DePaul University's School of Continuing and Professional Education. This fall, she is also teaching Creative Nonfiction at the Chicago High School for the Arts. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and was the recipient of a Ragdale Foundation residency in 2015.

Please join Virginia and all our amazing readers on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, upstairs at Hopleaf at 7:30 pm. This 21-and-older event is free.