Bell is the Editor of RHINO and author of Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around (forthcoming, Glass Lyre) and From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry, 2012). Her work has appeared in Five Points, Denver Quarterly, BPQ, RiverSedge (Honorable Mention, 2019 Poetry Prize), NELLE (winner, 2020 nonfiction prize), Hypertext, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Keats Letters Project, Wicked Alice, and Cider Press Review, among others. Bell teaches at Loyola University Chicago.