Frances Cannon is a writer and artist of hybrid mediums, currently teaching creative writing, fiction workshops, and literature courses at Champlain College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as visual arts and writing courses at the Vermont Commons School. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Iowa, and a BA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. She has recently been published by MIT Press, her book of experimental literary translation, Walter Benjamin Reimagined. Several of her books in various mediums have been published: her graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, with Gold Wake Press; a book of poems and paintings, Tropicalia, with Vagabond Press; and a collection of poems, Uranian Fruit, with Honeybee Press. She has a poetry chapbook forthcoming with Ethel Zine and a book of hybrid text and image with Prompt Press. Frances was born in Utah and has since lived in Oregon, Vermont, California, Maine, Iowa, Italy, Guatemala, France, and Mexico making art and writing books.
