Joan Frank

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Joan Frank was born to New Yorkers in Phoenix, Arizona. She studied with author Thaisa Frank (no relation) at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, and holds an MFA in creative fiction from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.

She is a MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and the River Teeth Prize for Literary NonFiction.

Joan also regularly reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for the Washington Post. She lives in Northern California."

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2010*

Best American Short Stories 2017*

* indicates notable/special mention

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