Most Recent: March 12, 2014
Francesca Bell’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Rattle, burntdistrict, North American Review, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, and The Sun. New work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Crab Creek Review, Flycatcher, River Styx, and Tar River Poetry. She has been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize. Her manuscript was a finalist in the Poetry Foundation’s 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award competition, a semi-finalist for the 2012 and 2013 Philip Levine Poetry Prize, a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, and a finalist in the Carnegie Mellon 2013 open submission period. Also to her credit are three luminous and eccentric children.