Gina Franco
Illinois, United States
Member Since: 08/22/2012
Gina Franco is the author of The Keepsake Storm, a collection of poems that explores an uneasy alliance between the vehemence of memory and the surrealism of narrative, especially in light of place, faith, and identity.
Her poems have been published in many places, including 32 Poems, Black Warrior Review, BorderSenses, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, Fence, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, Tuesday; an Art Project, and Zone 3.
Her writing is also anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, Lasting: Poems on Aging, Loft and Range, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing, and The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity.
She earned degrees from Smith College and from Cornell University, and she was awarded residencies and fellowships with Casa Libre en la Solana, the Santa Fe Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
She is the art editor of Pilgrimage Magazine.
She teaches poetry writing, 18th & 19th century British literature, Modern & contemporary poetry, poetry translation, Latino writing, religion and literature, and literary theory at at Knox College, where she was awarded the Philip Green Wright-Lombard Prize for distinguished teaching.
She is an oblate with the Catholic monastic order of the Community of St John in Princeville, Illinois.
reli[e]able signs is her journal of photographs. It reflects her travels between the Arizona desert where she grew up, her mother's home on the Southwest Texas/Mexican border, and the snowy Midwest, where she currently lives.
Website: ginafranco.shutterchance.com
Publications
- The Keepsake Storm , University of Arizona Press
Employment
- Associate Professor of English at Knox College (September 2003 - )
Genres of Interest
Creative nonfiction, Poetry