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Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus among others. Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. Great Black Hope is his first novel.

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“And because it was funny, Smith laughed as well. A gut-clench, sight-blur of laughter, full as a palm's clutch of fireflies. They swam out to the night. Into the warmth they knew was a gift that would someday eclipse them.”
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