Frank Dixon Graham

Poet, Fiction Writer

Sacramento, CA
California US

Author's Bio

Frank Dixon Graham has been published in over fifty national literary journals, including Evansville Review, Nassau Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, This Land, and the Harvard University Scriptorium. The author is organizing the California Colloquium on Social Justice Poetry and he organizes and he previously hosted the National Gathering of Social Justice Poets at the annual American Writers and Writing Programs Conference. The author, editor, and professor founded the Literary Lectures series and the Fifth Mondays Charity Benefit reading series and serves on the Board of the Directors of the Sacramento Poetry Alliance. Prior to founding the Sacramento Poetry Alliance with a few other poets in 2020, Graham served on the board of the  Sacramento Poetry Center for fourteen years. Graham served as Editor in Chief for the Tule Review for several years and was also on staff as an editor, from 2012 to 2017. He has also been an editor for The Pitkin Review and Poetry Now. Graham holds an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and has certification in TESOL/TEFL/TESL. He achieved an award from the Program for Professional Editors at UC Berkeley, certification in education technology from The University of Cape Town, and certification in higher education pedagogy from the Derek Bok School of Teaching at Harvard University. Graham has recently been in the employment of the Los Rios Colleges, and also in collaboration with the University of California, Davis, as well as with the UC Davis Center for International Education. Additionally, he frequently serves as an adjunct professor of compostion and poetry at Sacramento City College, Folsom Lake College, and Cosumnes River College. The professor is a licensed soccer coach, exhibited photographer, and he loves to travel abroad.

Literary agent: 
L.A. Kaliraman

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Journal:
Munyori Poetry Journal

Poetry

Chapbooks:
The Infinite In Between (Broken Arrow Press, 2013)
,
Out On the Reach (Broken Arrow Press, 2009)
,
Haiku (24th Street Irregular Press, 2008)
Journals:
Clackamas Literary Review
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Convergence
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Cosumnes River Journal
,
Feelings
, , ,
Medusa's Kitchen
,
Munyori Literary Journal
,
Paper Wasp
,
Poems-For-All
,
Poet's Page
,
Poetry Midwest
,
Poetry Now
,
Poets Against the War
,
portal
,
Rattlesnake Review
,
The Evansville Review
,
This Land
Prizes won: 

Pushcart Prize, Nominee, 2023; Muriel Craft Bailey Prize, Honorable Mention, 2022; New Issues Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2020; Jack Kerouac Prize, Honorable Mention, 2019; Jack Kerouac Prize, Honorable Mention, 2018

 

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Yevtushenko, Forché, Neruda, and Walcott. Also, Dickinson, Poe, Basho, and Cummings. And then, also, Achebe, Didion, Proulx, and Shakespeare.
What I'm reading now: 
Mad Cursive by Josh McKinney, Chimera by Brad Buchanan, Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine

More Information

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
Identifies as: 
Celtic American
Fluent in: 
French, Spanish
Born in: 
OK
Oklahoma
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Last update: Feb 27, 2024