Jordan Franklin

Jordan Franklin is the author of the poetry collections make it to the end (of the movie) (BOA Editions, forthcoming), when the signals come home (Switchback Books) and the chapbook boys in the electric age (Tolson Books). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Frontier Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, FENCE, Cagibi, Obsidian, the North American Review, the Eastern Iowa Review, and Memoir Mixtapes, among others. She has worked as a poetry editor for Harpur Palate literary magazine, and co-edited the Women of Color Writers’ Boundaries and Borders Anthology. She has taught for Binghamton University, Stony Brook University, Writopia, the Women of Color Writers, and the Young Artists and Writers Program. She holds a BFA from Brooklyn College, an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University, an MS.Ed from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D in English from Binghamton University.