Francine Conley
Francine writes, performs and teaches. She is the recipient of a Fulbright to study theater in Paris, and several Vermont Studio Center residency grants for writers, among other awards. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College.
As a performance artist she has written, produced, and toured multimedia collaborative productions in English, and is one of the founding members of the French/Franco-American theatre company, Le Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte, which toured plays in French to venues nationwide.
She has a full-length collection of poems, What Sweetness from Salt (Finishing Line Press), and a chapbook, How Dumb the Stars (Parallel Press), as well as individual stories and poems.
For more on her arts: www.francineconley.com
Publications
What Sweetness from Salt (Finishing Line Press, book)
How Dumb The Stars (Parallel Press, chapbook)
“RECLINING NUDE (1865)” – Pink Panther Magazine Volume 10 Issue 1, 2019
“Exile” – Inverted Syntax
“JOY” – Sky Island Journal
“Ship of Fools” – Triptych (also forthcoming in Anthology: Bosch and Bruegel Poems)
“Eve’s Dilemma” – Aesthetica Magazine
“Old Fools” – Fogged Clarity
“Mother Love” and “Wedding Portrait” – Green Mountains Review
“The Kitchen,” “Greenland,” and “Bees” – http://tinderboxpoetry.com/
“In a Boat, a Letter” – The Collagist
“The Cells” and “An Old Woman Cooking Eggs” Palaver, Fall 2016
“Salt” - Juked, 2015
“So Long As The Muskrat Distracts I Will Not Interpret What I See” forthcoming in Jujube’s, 2015
“Be Specific” Star 82 Review 2.4 (Nominated for “Best of Net” – July 2015)
“Argument” Start 82 Review 2.4
“The Destruction of Mother” Hartskill Review 1.3
“The Bat Situation” Hartskill Review 1.3
“Inside Out” Aster(ix), #7 -forthcoming in 2015
“Refinement” Naugatuck River Review, Winter Edition (A finalist for NPR’s 6th Annual Narrative Poetry contest prize) -forthcoming in 2015
“Mother Love” Avatar Review #17 2015
“Swan Song” Avatar Review #17 2015
“Who Are You:” American Literary Review
“Inside Out” — Girls in their Bedroom: Creativity in Intimate Spaces Axter(ix) Journal (2015)
“A Natural History” Shadowgraph 3 (2015)
“Suture,” “Idioms II” Harpurs Palate Summer 5.1
Interview With Rodney Jones – Shadowgraph Magazine, volume 3