francine j. harris is the author of play dead, winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and was a finalist for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her first collection, allegiance, was finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Awards. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a Cave Canem poet, and is currently the 2018/2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. At MacDowell, she worked on poems for a third manuscript based on ongoing research of Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement. The work in progress was presented to other fellows and garnered helpful feedback and direction.
francine j. harris
Studios
Mansfield
francine j. harris worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…