Francesca Marguerite Maxime

Poet

Brooklyn, NY

New York US

Email:

fmaxime@post.harvard.edu

Website:

www.facebook.com/RootedAVerseMem…

Author's Bio

Francesca Marguerite Maxime is the author of "Re-Routed: verse for the human animal" published in 2013, and "Rooted: a verse memoir," published by NYQ Books in 2012. She is also a broadcast journalist currently anchoring the news at Ebru TV. She was previously a reporter with WPIX/PIX11 news in New York City. Her poems have appeared in the New York Quarterly, the Paterson Literary Review, and Lips. She won an honorable mention for her poem, Christmas Cards, in the 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and is being nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. She resides in Brooklyn and graduated from Harvard University. www.francescamaxime.com
www.facebook.com/ReRoutedBook.com
www.facebook.com/RootedAVerseMemoir

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Rooted: a verse memoir (NYQ Books, 2012)

Prizes won:

Honorable Mention, 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, for 'Christmas Cards'

Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2013, for 'My Grandmother Sends Me Silky Nightgowns'

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Facts About the Moon by Dorianne Laux, Cold Comfort by Lyn Lifshin, One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds, The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux, The Trouble Ball by Martin Espada

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Haitian American, Hispanic, Italian American, Latino/Latina/Latinx, Mixed-Race

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Chicago

Raised in:

Boston, MA

Massachusetts

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Last update: May 18, 2013