Biography
Jeffrey Franklin grew up in Chattanooga, TN, but for over 20 years has called Colorado home. His previous poetry collection is For the Lost Boys, and his poems have appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Hudson Review, Measure, New England Review, Rattle, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, etc. He is the recipient of the Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and his poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry. He is the poetry editor of the North Carolina Literary Review, selecting finalists for the annual Applewhite Poetry Prize. He received his MFA and Ph.D. from the University of Florida and works as a professor at the University of Colorado Denver. His recent scholarly books are The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (2008) and Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain (2018), both from Cornell UP. He lives in Denver with his lifetime partner, Judy Lucas. For more about him and his writings, go to https://www.jeffreyfranklin.com/.
