Francesca Bellis the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019), a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Washington State Book Award. She is also the translator of Max Sessner's collection, Kitchens and Trains, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2023. Her poems and translations appear in journals such as New Ohio Review, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. She lives with her family in Novato, California.

Books by Francesca Bell:

Other poems on the web by Francesca Bell:
"Severance"
"Heart in a Box"
Five poems
Four poems
Ten poems
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems

Francesca Bell's Website.

About Bright Stain:

"Francesca Bell's poems are fierce and tender, passionate, compassionate, disturbing and delightful. Wide-ranging, finely-honed, smart and surprising, Bright Stain is a compelling debut collection!"
—Ellen Bass

"How deeply gratifying to see Francesca Bell's electric, erotic, and completely ravishing debut collection, Bright Stain, at last in the world. For the past ten years she has been writing some of the most charged, subtle, and yet devastating poems in American poetry. Many of these dramatic vignettes are laced with a rare sexual candor and a whip-smart emotional intelligence. Bright Stain is one of the most darkly elegant and luminous books of recent years; it is, in all ways, truly a wonder."
—David St. John