Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis
Francis at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
BornDecember 31st, 1963 Texas, U.S.
EducationFisk University
University of Michigan
Notable awardsKingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
SpouseMatthew Olzmann

Vievee Elaure Francis (/vˈv/) is an American poet. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year. Vievee is the author of three collections of the poetry, the third of which, Forest Primeval, won the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for poetry and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts (Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards) poetry award.