I have a new essay with Art UK! artuk.org/discover/sto...

Happy to have my novel longlisted for the @bridportprize.bsky.social : an excerpt was published in this anthology!

Moved my dog across the pond on a ship!

working new above/ground press chapbooks by Guy Birchard, Jill Stengel, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jimmy T Cahill, Lance La Rocque, Rebecca Comay/Cary Fagan, Buck Downs + Frances Cannon this week; have you thought of subscribing? / @frankyfrancescannon.com abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...

Just learned that Charles Bukowski wrote about a character named 'Franky Cannon' (my name) in his 1972 (City Lights) book, "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," which was later split into two volumes and republished as "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town." Neat🤷‍♂️

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

I wrote a piece for @truthout.org about my frustrating path as a contingent professor (adjunct, visiting). I began writing this piece during an OpEd project workshop with the editorial mentorship of Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt @reshmi777.bsky.social read it here: truthout.org/articles/why...

New podcast conversation with yours truly and Patricia Kaishian, about queer ecologies , fungi, writing, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/6isX...

Impressive turnout for the NO KINGS protest in Ohio

Thrilled to read about this exhibit curated by Mycologist Patricia Kaishian at New York State Museum -- I hope I get to see it in person! A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

so they're mycoblogging

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

Why oh why did I decide to read these two books simultaneously: they couldn't be more different in tone and topic: Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Or, perhaps they're the perfect pairing:

Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again” www.newyorker.com/books/second...

New book alert! @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social and I collaborated on this kids book, Willow and the Storm, published by @greenwriterspress.bsky.social

I gave a reading from my poetry collection at my old high school, what a wacky nostalgic experience!

New interview and review of my poetry collection, Fling Diction, launched today @greenwriterspress.bsky.social

Practicing self care by lying on the forest floor until the roots of the trees and mushrooms pierce my body and accept me into their nutrient web

Here are some nice mushrooms

I have a podcast of book recommendations and my 6th episode is now up: Jen Beagin's "Big Swiss". open.spotify.com/episode/2W9y...

Wearing my grandmother Helen's snail pin to remind me to take it slow

Here's Emily to heat up this cold Wednesday morning

The most Capricorn-y Capricorn to have ever walked the earth.

Me during job app season in academia

Police raid at the Bigfoot museum

Me and my dog on a log