Frances Cannon

Frances Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the reviews editor for Poetry Wales and an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review. She recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship at Kenyon College. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm, (Green Writers Press, 2025), and Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga (forthcoming with Valiz Press in 2026).