George Franklin

George Franklin is the author of eight poetry collections: A Man Made of Stories (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025), What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024), Remote Cities (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023), Noise of the World (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2020), Traveling for No Good Reason (winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition in 2018), a dual-language collection, Among the Ruins / Entre las ruinas (Katakana Editores, 2018), Travels of the Angel of Sorrow (Blue Cedar Press, 2020), and a collaboration with Colombian poet Ximena Gómez, Conversaciones sobre agua / Conversations About Water (Katakana Editores, 2023). Individual publications include: new Ohio Review, Cagibi, Solstice, Rattle, Sequestrum, The Threepenny Review, Salamander, Pedestal Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, and The American Journal of Poetry. He practices law in Miami, teaches poetry workshops in Florida state prisons and is the co-translator, along with the author, of Ximena Gómez's Último día/Last Day (Katakana Editores). He is also first prize winner of the 2023 W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize.