Francesca Bell is a poet and translator. She is the author of the poetry collection Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019) and is the co-translator of Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s collection, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat, 2017). Her work appears in New Ohio Review, North American Review,Rattle, and Tar River Poetry.