Fireside Literary Series

Frances Cannon ‘09

Frances Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing
Fellow at Kenyon College and is an editorial reader for the Kenyon Review. She is the author and
illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of
Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling
Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm (Green Writers Press, 2025), and Queer
Flora, Fauna, Funga (forthcoming with Valiz Press in 2026). 

Open to the Public.

Learn more at frankyfrancescannon.com