About

Frankie Concepcion is a writer, educator, and organizer from the Philippines currently living in Somerville, MA. Her work has been published internationally in journals such as Bodega Magazine, Waxwing Literary Journal, The Toast, and Filipino news platform, Rappler, amongst others. She has served on the editorial teams of Boston-based food journal GRLSQUASH, Winter Tangerine, and Side B Magazine, and is an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop and the GrubStreet Short Story Incubator. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received Honorable Mention for the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship, and has been a Finalist for the 2020 Passages North Waasnode Fiction Prize and 2018 F(r)iction Summer Literary Contest.

In 2019, Frankie became a permanent resident of the US after living in Boston for almost a decade. That same year, she founded the Boston Immigrant Writers Salon, a community to empower and inspire immigrant voices, through which she has organized workshops, open-mic nights, healing salons, and lectures all over the Greater Boston area. Through her writing and work within the community, she seeks to create a new immigration narrative— one that interrogates America’s ownership over the ‘immigrant experience,’ and explores our longing for things left behind just as deeply as our reasons for leaving.