Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Danny Bellinger, & Abigail Greenbaum

Lostintheletters is honored to present an evening of readings by three incredible authors!

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, released in March 2026; Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize; and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. New work appears in Orion, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Lit Hub, among others. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature and the Winter Anthology Award, she has served since 2013 as the editor of Ecotone. Bell teaches at UNC Wilmington, and calls ungendered Appalachian square dances in what’s now called North Carolina and beyond.

Danny Bellinger is a poet, writer, and Assistant Professor at Georgia Highlands College in Atlanta, GA. He is a Community of Writers Poetry Fellow and recipient of the C.D. Wright Memorial Scholarship. His work has appeared in Community of Writers Poetry Review, Black Sunflowers Poetry, Obsidian, Callaloo, TPC Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook, More Beautiful Than the Dead, was recently published by Black Sunflower Poetry Press in London.

Abigail Greenbaum writes fiction and essays in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Ecotone, Oxford American, Terrain, Southern Cultures, Grist, New World Writing, Free State Review, Louisville Review, Gravy, and other places. Her fiction and essays have been noted in Best American Sportswriting, received Special Mention from the Pushcart Prize and been nominated for Best of the Net. She’s an instructional designer at Georgia State University.

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