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Joey Franklin

JOEY FRANKLIN is the author of The Writer's Hustle (Bloomsbury, 2023), Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (Nebraska, 2020) and My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married (Nebraska, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He currently serves as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and recently ended his run as coordinator for  the MFA program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His active projects include a memoir about the saints and scoundrels in his family tree, and a collection of spiritual essays. 

Day job

Associate Professor of English

      Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Co-Editor

      Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

EDUCATION

PhD, Literature and Creative Writing

      Texas Tech University, 2012

MA, Literature and Creative Writing

      Ohio University, 2009

BA, English

      Brigham Young University, 2007

Awards & Honors

2018- Pushcart Nomination

2016- Finalist, Utah Book Award

2016- Best American Essay Notable Essay: "The Full Montaigne

2015 - Creative Nonfiction Book of the Year - Association of Mormon Letters

2015- Best American Essays Notable Essay: “Houseguest”

2011- Sport Literate Magazine Essay Contest, First place.

2006- Grand Prize, Random House Contest, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writer's


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