Bobby Elliott's debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 9, 2025. Raised in New York City, he earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow and won the Kahn Prize for Teaching. Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Diode, North American Review, ONLY POEMS, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere.