FRANCIS SANTANA is a Dominican American writer, educator, and ex-Pentecostal preacher from New York City. He is a 2018 National Poetry Series finalist, and currently the associate poetry editor for Slice Magazine.
Francis earned his MFA from the Helen Zell Writer’s Program at the University of Michigan where he won a Hopwood Award in poetry (2016), and a Helen S. and John Wagner Prize (2016). While there, he also received a post-grad writing fellowship.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Indiana Review, Rattle, and elsewhere.
Francis is currently at work on his first book.
Francis earned his MFA from the Helen Zell Writer’s Program at the University of Michigan where he won a Hopwood Award in poetry (2016), and a Helen S. and John Wagner Prize (2016). While there, he also received a post-grad writing fellowship.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Indiana Review, Rattle, and elsewhere.
Francis is currently at work on his first book.