Rob Franklin

Photograph by Emma Trim

About The Author

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus among others. Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. Great Black Hope is his first novel.

Appearances

NOV 8
10:00AM
In Person

Portland Book Festival

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205

Books by Rob Franklin

Great Black Hope
By Rob Franklin
‘A beautifully expansive novel about race and class... Franklin's emotional and intellectual range is vast... An exceptional debut’ – Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies‘So smart, so moving, so earned; as soon as I finished, I started reading it again’ – Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!‘The precis...
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