ABOUT

Anna Sandy Elrod is a writer, editor, and teacher. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis and an MFA and PhD in Poetry from Georgia State University. She was Editor in Chief of New South Journal from 2017-2020, and now serves as Editor and co-founder of joint projects Birdcoat Quarterly and Ghost Peach Press. Her poetry and creative nonfiction can be found in journals such as Pleiades, Threepenny Review, North American Review, Fugue, and Iron Horse, and her poem "Only Two" was selected as the winner of the 2020 Prism Review Poetry Prize. She has presented at conferences such as PAMLA, PCA/ACA, and the Austin International Poetry Festival, among others. Her writing and research interests include classic Greek and Roman mythology, glossolalia, motherhood, mushrooms (and other fungi), and the deconstruction of purity culture and religious fundamentalism. She currently teaches at Georgia Highlands College and lives in a cabin in rural Georgia, USA with her husband, daughter, and several other small creatures.