Frances Cannon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and since then has bounced around living, making artwork and writing, in Oregon, Maine, Montana, Vermont, San Francisco, France, Italy, Guatemala. She flourishes on unusual arts, be that baked goods, the art of the garden, or puppetry. She strives toward a certain aesthetic: a mixture of oddity, adventure, and natural beauty. This includes an appreciation for ancient arts, such as typewritten epistolary exchanges, letterpress poetry chapbooks, and intaglio copper etching. She recently self-published a handmade book of silkscreened prints and poems called Image Burn, and is in a constant state of artistic production. She studied poetry and printmaking at the University of Vermont and is currently pursuing her MFA in nonfiction and book arts at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.