Catherine University. She is a poet, performer, and director with a chapbook of poems, How Dumb the Stars, published through Parallel Press. She has a manuscript of poems in circulation, What Sweetness from Salt (2017). Francine is one of six founding and active members of Franco-American touring theatre company, Le Theatre de la Chandelle Verte. The troupe led group works from 2001-2014, and continues to tour a selection of commissioned plays, such as FEMMES DE LETTRES (currently touring since 2017).