Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin’s work appears or is forthcoming in the New York Times, the Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Guernica, Blackbird, Tar River Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Lunch Ticket, Passages North, North Dakota Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Juked, and the Chattahoochee Review among other places. Her work has also been featured on National Public Radio, long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her debut collection, Tell Me How You Got Here, will be published by Terrapin Books in January 2021.
Reading List
Seventeen Ways of Looking at a Crime
For John M 1) Of course you didn’t do it or 2) You didn’t mean to and 3) your brother shoplifted that bottle opener without knowing its use while 4) your grandfather slipped albums underneath his peacoat and then felt too guilty to play them 5) Thank God you are a minor and/or 6) The […]
Tell Me How You Got Here
African Gray Parrot Returns to Owners After Four Years —Independent UK I was not the first to call you mine. You came to us British, with only three words: blimey, matey, persimmon— all from your original owners, thieves and animal smugglers, tough accents mimicked so when you cooed blimey you appeared the pirate-ship version […]