Jennifer Franklin is the author of three poetry collections, including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023), finalist for the Paterson Prize and the Julie Suk Award. Her work has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum, and published in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, The Nation, and Poetry Society of America’s “Poetry in Motion.” She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a NYFA/City Artist Corps Grant, the Jon Tribble Editor’s Fellowship, and a Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Award in Literature. She is cofounder and cohost of the online reading series “Words Like Blades” which pairs mentors and their mentees. Her new manuscript, A FIRE IN HER BRAIN, is a series of epistolary poems to Virginia Woolf, Lucia Joyce, and Sylvia Plath. She has been teaching manuscript revision workshops for over a decade and she also teaches in Manhattanville’s MFA program, Poets House, The Frost Place, and 24 Pearl Street.
