Frannie Lindsay is an American poet. She is author of six poetry collections: The Snow’s Wife (Cavankerry Press, 2020), If Mercy (Word Works, 2016), Our Vanishing (Red Hen Press, 2014), Mayweed (Word Works, 2010), Lamb (Perugia Press, 2006), and Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004). Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Field, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, and Hunger Mountain. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.
Lindsay earned her BA from Russell Sage College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She grew up in a musical family— her mother was a concert violinist— and she is a classical pianist and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with her two dogs.