Franky (Frances) Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland and Burlington, Vermont. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press), Willow and the Storm (Green Writers), Tropicalia (Vagabond), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake), Sagittaria (Bottlecap), Predator/Play (Ethel), Uranian Fruit (Honeybee), Grotto (above/ground), and Bitten by the Lantern Fly (Ethel). She will have three books published in 2026: Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga (Valiz), Adventitious Buds (Green Writers), and her novel Vernal Thaw (Set Margins’). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Gutter, The Iowa Review, Literary Hub, Saraband, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and other publications. Find more at frankyfrancescannon.com