Frankie Concepcion
Staff
About Frankie
Frankie Concepcion (she/her) is GrubStreet's Development Coordinator. In this role, Frankie helps to make sure that GrubStreet has the resources to keep providing exciting classes and programs that meet the needs of writers and readers at all levels, while supporting writers’ development and helping them share that work locally and with the world. Previously, Frankie has served as a 2024-2025 Tin House Reading Fellow, Managing Editor for literary magazine Hayden's Ferry Review, Instructor at Arizona State University, and Development Coordinator for Boston nonprofit theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company. A long time Grubbie, she is a member of the Boston Writers of Color, a graduate of the 2019 Short Story Incubator, and was a presenter at the 2024 Muse & the Marketplace Conference. In 2019, she founded the Boston Immigrant Writers Salon: a community to empower and inspire immigrant voices, and in 2024 she completed her MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University. Frankie has also received additional fellowships from Tin House, Sibling Rivalry Press and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and her writing has been published in The Good Life Review, Barzakh, StoryQuarterly, Joyland, HYPHEN, and more. She was born and raised in the Philippines.