George Franklin graduated from Harvard University, where he studied poetry with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Fitzgerald, in 1975. He subsequently received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University and an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia. He lived for over ten years in the ashrams of his spiritual preceptor in India and in upstate New York. He has published two books of poetry, "The Fall of Miss Alaska," Six Gallery Press, 2007, and the chapbook "Contour With Shadow," Frolic Press, 2016. A book of literary criticism, "Some Segments of a River," was published by Nicasio Press in the winter of 2020, and a memoir/critical study "Portraits from Life" was published in 2022. His uncollected poems, including "Talking Head," a forty-page work in blank verse, have been published widely, most prominently in Epiphany Magazine and in The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society.