Francine Conley is an artist who writes and performs. She has a chapbook How Dumb the Stars (Parallel Press), as well as poems published in journals and online. She is a member of the Rabble Writers Collective, and the Franco-American theater troupe, Le Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte. She travels between Stockholm, Sweden and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is a professor of International Languages and Literatures, Creative Writing and Women's Studies at Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul, MN.