An Interview with Gifted Poet Gina Franco

Gina Franco

Gina Franco

By Sara Chuirazzi '16 and Daniel Barnum '17

Gina Franco is the author of The Keepsake Storm. Her writing has been published widely in journals and is anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, 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 was awarded residencies and fellowships with Casa Libre en la Solana, the Santa Fe Writers' Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is an oblate with the Catholic monastic order of the Community of St John in Princeville, Illinois. Franco teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Franco's poems "Reatablo:," "The Spirit is Bone," and a selection from "Substantial" appeared in the Winter 2016 edition of West Branch Wired..........continue