About David Francis

David Francis serves as Dean of Grace Hopper College at Yale University. He has received a Fulbright fellowship to translate into English poems by the Colombian writer José Asunción Silva, and was a runner up for Harcourt’s Drenka Willen Prize for Poetry in Translation. His translations or poems have appeared in Inventory, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry, Guernica, and SpoKe. He has an M.F.A. in poetry writing from Columbia University and has taught previously at Tufts and Harvard University.