Jennifer Franklin

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Jennifer Franklin is a poet, professor, and editor. She is the author of four poetry collections, including A Fire in Her Brain (Princeton University Press, 2027) and If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023), a finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize. 

Franklin is also the winner of a Pushcart Prize, residencies from the T. S. Eliot and Hawthornden foundations, and has been a recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts/City Corps and the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. 

Franklin is the program director of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and a professor in the creative writing MFA program at Manhattanville College.