Frances Cannon is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, 2023 - 25. She is an interdisciplinary writer, educator, editor and artist whose work creatively combines prose and poetry with visual art into hybrid forms such as comics, graphic texts, and illustrated manuscripts. Her interests in science writing include botany, mycology, the climate crisis, medicine and food studies. She is the author and illustrator of several books: "Walter Benjamin Reimagined," MIT Press, "The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank," Gold Wake Press, "Tropicalia," Vagabond Press, "Sagittaria," Bottlecap Press, "Predator/Play," Ethel Zine, and "Fling Diction," forthcoming with Green Writers Press.
Cannon has previously taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Champlain College, the Vermont Commons School, Burlington City Arts and the University of Iowa. She also edits for Green Writers Press, Onion River Press and Maple Tree Press.
Areas of Expertise
Hybrid and graphic literature, botany, creative writing
Education
2017 — Master of Fine Arts from University of Iowa
2013 — Bachelor of Arts from University of Vermont