francine j. harris is the author of three collections, including Here is the Sweet Hand, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Originally from Detroit, harris is Professor of English at the University of Houston and serves as Consulting Faculty Editor at Gulf Coast.