Emily Franklin

Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books including a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, is in its eleventh printing and was recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy!. She grew up half in the UK and half in Boston where she lives with her spouse and four children. Her novel Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction told from the perspective of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s forgotten stepsister who was integral in the creation of Frankenstein, will be published in April 2026.