An associate professor of Creative Writing at Brigham Young University and a founding member of the editorial staff at Quotidiana.org. He is the author of Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (Nebraska 2020), and My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married (Nebraska 2015). His essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Pinch, The Normal School, Florida Review, American Literary Review, The Norton Nonfiction Reader,and elsewhere. Along with Patrick Madden, he co-edits the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.

Website: http://joeyfranklin.com

Twitter Username: @joey_franklin

Publications

• Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays , University of Nebraska Press (October 15, 2021)
• My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married , University of Nebraska Press (November 1, 2015)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University - Provo (August 2012 - )

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in Creative Nonfiction and 20th Century American Regionalism from Texas Tech University (August 2012)
• Master of Arts in English and creative writing from Ohio University (June 2009)
• Bachelor of Arts in English from Brigham Young University (April 2007)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction