About

Angela M. Franklin is a poet, essayist, visual artist, activist, and documentarian. She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is a fellow of Cave Canem, VONA fellow, and Hurston Wright. 

Her work is published in anthologies such as Korean Anthology Flowers Blooming from Scars: 30 Year Anniversary of LA Riots, The Gathering, Peregrine: Black Voices Speak, The Best of Poetry Salon, Voices of Leimert Park Redux, and online publications Cultural Weekly, Portside and Spectrum. 

Franklin has two books underway. Leather Sundays is a memoir examining violence's impact on a Black family and its neighboring community. The second book is a collection of poetry, Cutting Through Keloids. 

Ms. Franklin worked in collaboration with the director of the  Anansi Writers Workshop, to conduct poetry-writing workshops to help writers address sexual trauma. Our Soul wRITES: Sexual Trauma Undressed.

When her schedule permits, she teaches poetry to incarcerated youths and high school students.