Jennifer Franklin is the author of three full-length poetry collections including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her work has been published in The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Blackbird, The Nation, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franklin is the recipient of a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts City Artist Corps Grant for poetry and a 2021 Café Royal Cultural Foundation Literature Award. She teaches in Manhattanville College’s MFA program and the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she serves as program director.  

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