Bio:
Jennifer Franklin has published three full-length collections, most recently, If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, March 2023), finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2023 Julie Suk Award. She has received a Cafe Royal Foundation Grant in Literature, a NYFA/City Artist Corps Grant in Poetry, the Third Annual Jon Tribble Editor’s Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.
Poems from her new manuscript, A FIRE IN HER BRAIN (about Virginia Woolf, Lucia Joyce, and Emily Dickinson), have been published in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Common, Poetry Northwest, and The Academy of American Poets “poem-a-day” series. “With Lines from Virginia Woolf” was a finalist for the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. “Blue Room, Pompeii” was a 2025 Ashland Poetry Press Broadside winner.
Previous work has been published in print and online, including in Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, “poem-a-day” from The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society’s “Poetry in Motion,” Prairie Schooner, and Verse Daily.
Jennifer’s passion is teaching and she has a devoted following of talented students in her manuscript revision workshops on Zoom. She offers private manuscript consultations and teaches craft workshops for 24 Pearl Street of Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Since January of 2020, Jennifer has taught in Manhattanville’s MFA program. With Adedayo Agarau, Jennifer is Poetry Reviews coeditor for The Rumpus. With Nicole Callihan & Pichchenda Bao, she coedited the anthology, Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, March 2024).
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Jennifer holds an AB from Brown University and an MFA from Columbia University where she was the Harvey Baker Fellow in her first year and won a Dean’s Fellowship for her second year. At Brown, she studied with Michael S. Harper and C.D Wright. At Columbia, she studied with Lucie Brock-Broido, Lucille Clifton, and Richard Howard. She has also worked with Patricia Smith and Carolyn Forché. Diane Seuss chose one of her poems for The Academy of American Poets “poem-a-day” series in March 2023, which then won a Pushcart Prize in 2024. Her poem, “Momento Mori: Apple Orchard” was included in the eco-poetry section of the Beford Introduction to Literature (Macmillian, 2024). She has a poem in Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to Songs of Taylor Swift (Ballantine/Random House, December 2024). For over a decade she taught manuscript revision at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she served as Program Director. She lives in New York City with her husband, their daughter, and their rescue pit bull, Dottie.
