Emily Franklin is the author of more than sixteen young adult books including The Half-Life of Planets (nominated for YALSA's Best Book of the Year) and Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom (named to the 2013 Rainbow List). A former chef, she wrote the cookbook-memoir Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, and 102 New Recipes to chronicle a year of new foods, family meals, hilarity and heartache around the table. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Blackbird, The Rumpus, and The Chattahoochee Review. She lives with her husband and four kids outside of Boston, Massachusetts. This is her debut poetry collection.

Books by Emily Franklin:

Other poems on the web by Emily Franklin:
"I want all the things I had"
Two poems
"Tell Me How You Got Here"
"Ode to a Sibling"
"Epigenetic Inheritance"
"My Mother's Shirt"
"Laundry"
"Phone Booth to the Dead"
"My 8-year-old son"
"Out the bathroom window"

Emily Franklin's Website.

Emily Franklin on Twitter.

About Tell Me How You Got Here:

"Emily Franklin's Tell Me How You Got Here is rich with the objects of this world—a stray sneaker on the highway, a garage-sale skillet, 'damp frogs small as grapes'—ordinary things and situations revealed as extraordinary, thanks to her original vision and precise language. That most overworked and least understood muscle, the human heart, is the great filter through which these objects pass and accrue their startling beauty. At the end of the book, Franklin returns us to the world, and returns the world to us, redeemed. What more could we ask for from poetry?"
—Beth Ann Fennelly

"In Tell Me How You Got Here, Emily Franklin explores memory, motherhood, loss, and the ways objects-and bodies—may be haunted by the history they carry. The poems are as smart and provocative as they are tender, inviting the reader to ask difficult questions: What can we call ours? What do we lay claim to that can't possibly belong to us? How might we live with the past rather than try to erase it? Tell Me How You Got Here is an astonishing collection."
—Maggie Smith

"These poems acknowledge a broken world. Franklin illuminates grief and loss, identity and memory while navigating the space between the childhoods we've helped create for our children and the shifting landscapes of our parents' aging. She is a brilliant writer, one I seek out-time and again—for insight and solace."
—Julianna Baggott