Gina Franco is the author of the poetry collections The Keepsake Storm and The Accidental, winner of the 2019 CantoMundo Prize. In addition, her poems have appeared in the anthologies A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years; The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry; and The Other Latin@: Writing against a Singular Identity. A graduate of Smith College, she earned MA and MFA degrees from Cornell University and teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.