Bobby Elliott is an award-winning poet and educator. His debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 9th, 2025. The Same Man was also selected by Maya C. Popa as a finalist for the 2026 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was longlisted for the Nossrat Yassini Book Prize from the University of New Hampshire.

Raised in New York City, he earned his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and studied at the University of Oxford as a Gilman Scholar. He went on to earn his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow and won the Kahn Prize for Outstanding Teaching in Poetry.

His writing has appeared in Adroit, BOMB, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and sons.