Draft:Gina Franco

Gina Franco is a poet that was born and raised in Clifton-Morenci, Arizona. She began her education going to school at a pharmacy tech program where should also work on her writing. Gina Francos writing and literature teachers convinced her to apply to Smith College where should had received a full scholarship as a non traditional female. She earned degrees from both Smith college as well as Cornell university. She was then awarded residencies and fellowships from multiple conferences such as the Casa Libre en la Solana along with the Santa Fe Writers' Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.Her writing is widely known in articles. Some of the work she is well known for is A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, as well as the Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. Gina Franco is the author of The Keepsake Storm which included poems that dive into uneasy alliance between memory and the surrealism of narrative especially in light of language, place, faith, and identity.