Frances Cannon’s Artist Statement:
I am a compulsive artmaker, making use of any materials within reach and which can be carried around in my backpack to sketch here, there, and everywhere: pen and ink, watercolor. I keep a daily journal of both prose and visual elements, which allows me to continually maintain my creative impulse and carry ideas from one day to the next. Many of my art forms reflect and engage with the books that I’m reading, including graphic book reviews, illustrated poems, and other hybrid-visual-literary responses; this dual text-image medium allows me to engage more parts of my brain as I process and interpret each book. I am inspired by artists who have similar interdisciplinary and chaotic practices: writers who paint, painters who write, printmakers who dance, and so on. José Antonio Suárez Londoño’s notebook pages are always on my mind. Louise Bourgeois, Ruth Asawa, Hilma af Klint, Lynda Barry, Swoon, Paula Rego, Amy Cutler, Ernst Haeckel, Francis Hallé, Alexander Calder — these are a few of the artists who inspire me. Text and image are forever intertwined in my work and mind.
Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, 2023 – 2025. She edits for The Kenyon Review, Green Writers Press, Onion River Press, and Maple Tree Press. She recently served as the Managing Director of the Sundog Poetry Center in Vermont. She has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Champlain College, the Vermont Commons School, the University of Iowa, and Burlington City Arts. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. Her published books include: Walter Benjamin Reimagined, MIT Press, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, Gold Wake Press, Tropicalia, Vagabond Press, Predator/Play, Ethel Press, Uranian Fruit, Honeybee Press, Sagittaria, Bottlecap Press, Image Burn, a self-published art book, and Fling Diction, Green Writers Press. She has worked for The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, and The Lucky Peach. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Poetry Northwest, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Green Mountain Review, Vice, Lithub, The Moscow Times, The Examined Life Journal, Gastronomica, Electric Lit, Edible magazine, North American Review, Fourth Genre, Rhino Poetry, and The Kenyon Review.
Website: frankyfrancescannon.com
Instagram: @frankyfrancescannon
Twitter: @francesartist
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