NHBF Author: Rob Franklin

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus among others. 

Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. 

Great Black Hope is a "gripping, elegant debut novel about a young black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamor and tragedy, a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest."

 

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 3-4, 2025.