Gina Franco's collection of poems, The Keepsake Storm, was published by the University of Arizona Press Camino del Sol Latina/o Literary Series in 2004. Her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including Black Warrior Review, BorderSenses, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Fence, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Reveiw, Tuesday; an Art Project, Zone 3, A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. Her poetry has been nominated for and awarded numerous prizes and fellowships, including the Bread Loaf Meralmikjen Fellowship in Poetry and the Defined Providence Poetry Book Prize, and her collection of poems was recently recognized in The New York Times Book Review Blog among books that Junot Diaz says left him "floored." Her teaching and research interests include 18th & 19th century British literature, Modern & contemporary poetry and poetry translation, Latino writing, religion and literature, and literary theory. She currently serves as acquiring art editor of Pilgrimage Magazine and as a contributing editor to Latino Poetry Review. She divides her living between Galesburg, Illinois, where she teaches English and creative writing at Knox College, the Arizona desert where she grew up, and the Southwest Texas/Mexican border, her mother's home.
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