Elijah Burrell is the author of the poetry collections Skies of Blur (EastOver Press, 2024), TROUBLER (Aldrich Press, 2018), and The Skin of the River (Aldrich Press, 2014). In 2010, Burrell received the Jane Kenyon Scholarship at Bennington College, where he earned his MFA in Writing and Literature at Bennington’s Writing Seminars. He was awarded the Claudia Emerson Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2019. His writing has appeared in publications such as AGNI, The Hopkins Review, North American Review, Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Sugar House Review, and Measure. In 2012, Burrell joined the faculty of Lincoln University, where he serves as Professor of English. In 2023, he received the Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education.