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Gina Frangello (born 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and editor. She is the author of three books of fiction: My Sister’s Continent (Chiasmus, 2006), Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press, 2010), and A Life in Men (Algonquin, 2014). Her work is known for its frank explorations of sexual power dynamics, psychologically intricate characterization, and a diverse array of international settings. Slut Lullabies was a ForeWord magazine finalist for Best Book of the Year, and A Life in Men was a frequent book club selection for online magazines such as NYLON and The Rumpus, is part of Target’s “Emerging Writer” series, and was lauded as a “work of art” by the Boston Globe and a "stunning novel” by Kirkus, which went on to say that "Frangello’s broken characters live in a world of terror and redemption, of magnificent sadness and beauty.” She also writes essays, reviews and criticism, which has been published in such venues as the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, StyleSubstanceSoul, and The Manifest-Station, in addition to extensively on The Nervous Breakdown and The Rumpus, where she has run literary columns. She is particularly known for her series of essays on her aging father and mortality, including “The Lion and the Mouse” and “This Is Happiness,” both published on The Nervous Breakdown. On The Rumpus, she has interviewed some of the most acclaimed writers of the era, including Margaret Atwood and Junot Diaz.

Frangello was also the longstanding editor (1998-2007) of the award-winning Chicago-based literary magazine Other Voices (founded 1984) and co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, where she served as the Executive Editor from 2004-2014 (the imprint is now part of Dzanc Books). During her many years under the Other Voices auspices, she published such writers as Dan Chaon, Aimee Bender, Jennifer Egan, Josip Novakovich, Steve Almond, Wanda Coleman and Etgar Keret. Books published by Other Voices Books have been winners and finalists for the International Book Award, the IPPY prizes, the Lambda prizes, and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. In 2004, Frangello guest-edited the fiction anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books), which included a Foreword by Elissa Schappell. She also served as the first faculty editor at Northwestern University for TriQuarterly Online. Frangello is currently the fiction editor of the popular online literary collective, The Nervous Breakdown, and the Sunday editor of the online cultural magazine The Rumpus. She teaches at the Low Residency MFA program at University of Riverside Palm Desert, and in 2013 launched the ongoing international writing program Other Voices Queretaro (www.othervoicesqueretaro.com)

Frangello has been widely praised for her generosity to emerging writers and her longstanding championing of independent presses. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.