Bobby Elliott’s debut poetry collection, The Same Man, was chosen by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. It will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 9, 2025. The collection is available for pre-order.
Elliott’s previous poetry can be found in The Cortland Review, Diode, North American Review, ONLY POEMS, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Earning his MFA from the University of Virginia, he was also a Poe/Faulkner Fellow and won the Kahn Prize for Teaching.
Debutiful is pleased to reveal the cover of Elliott’s debut (designed by Alex Wolfe) alongside a Q&A with the poet to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the cover came to be.
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