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. 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.