Jennifer Franklin

Jennifer Franklin has published three full-length collections, most recently, If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, March 2023). With Nicole Callihan & Pichchenda Bao, she is co-editing the anthology, Braving the Body (Terrapin Books, 2024). In 2021, she received both a Cafe Royal Foundation Grant in Literature and a NYFA/City Artist Corps Grant in Poetry. Her work has been published widely in anthologies, print publications, and online including in American Poetry Review, Beloit, Bennington Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, The Common, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry Society’s “Poetry in Motion,” and Prairie Schooner. Most recently, Diane Seuss chose one of Franklin’s poems for The Academy of American Poets “poem-a-day” series in March 2023. She holds an AB from Brown University and an MFA from Columbia University where she was the Harvey Baker Fellow. For the past ten years, she has taught manuscript revision at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she runs the reading series and serves as Program Director. She also teaches craft workshops in Manhattanville’s MFA program and 24 Pearl Street of Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. 

Adjunct Professor, Poetry, Manhattanville MFA 2020-present

Poetry Instructor, Manuscript Revision, Hudson Valley Writers Center, 2013-present

Program Director, Hudson Valley Writers Center, 2014-present

AB Brown University

MFA Columbia University School of the Arts