Frances Metzman

Award-winning Frances Metzman has published numerous short stories, essays, articles, interviews, three novels, and a short story collection. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. Her novels, The Cha-Cha Babes Dance with the Devil and The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way, were Best Sellers on Amazon in 2023 and 2019. The Dzanc Book Award, “Best of the Web,” was awarded to Fran in 2009. She has presented writing workshops at Temple University, Pennsylvania State College, Bryn Mawr College, and other venues. At Rosemont College, she was an adjunct professor for graduate students, teaching publishing and creative writing. Fran is a fiction editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal and a freelance editor. She teaches creative writing/memoir at Temple University’s OLLI program. Her MA was earned at the University of Pennsylvania, and her BFA at Moore College of Art.