Rob Franklin is the author of Great Black Hope, which was published in June 2025. A national bestseller, his debut novel has been nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence — as well as named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME, Vogue, NPR, and Vanity Fair, among others.

More recently, he has written cover stories for Cultured Magazine, The Cut, and Document Journal. A co-founder of Art for Black Lives, Franklin holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. He teaches writing at School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and edits fiction for Joyland.