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Maggie Frank-Hsu

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“Roses” 

VAMP Storytelling Showcase 

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“Fog” 

Pidgeonholes 

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POETRY CHAPBOOK

A Drop in the
Dry Season

Maggie’s debut chapbook, A Drop in the Dry Season, retrieves and sifts through hopes, impulses, intuitions, moments, and memories that have been thrown on the junk heap. Like the women of countless generations and cultures, these poems take leftover hard soil, ceramic curio bits, and the neighbor’s swimming pool and throw them together to make something that sustains us. 

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About Maggie

Maggie Frank-Hsu is a poet, writer, and editor living in San Diego. Her poetry has been published in Pidgeonholes and Whale Road Review, among other journals. She self-published her first book, Be About Something, in 2020. She is a past nonfiction reviewer for Publishers Weekly, and she received her M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism and worked on the staff of Gourmet, Martha Stewart Weddings, and ESPN the Magazine. She lives with her husband, two children, and two dogs. She is at work on a memoir. She also publishes the Estranged newsletter on Substack.

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  • ESSAY EDITING: “Working with Maggie unlocked so much for me. In fact, I have a friend who is trying to find her voice in her writing. She's very much like me - behind the scenes on a ton of projects, and she's not sure of herself when she writes in her own voice. She reached out to say, "Sara, your voice comes through so strongly in your emails! How do you do it?" And I said, "Honestly, the big thing that helped me was working with Maggie Frank-Hsu...It was like I had to clear the decks and write with her so that I could get to what was meaningful to me and what I really want to say in my business. Without her I would still be hiding." Thank you, Maggie. And to anyone considering hiring Maggie: Don't hesitate. You won't know what you can accomplish until you have the support of someone like Maggie propelling you forward.”

    — Sara Frandina, Conversion Copywriter at Sara Frandina Strategies

  • BOOK EDITING: “My co-author and I came to Maggie with a messy half-manuscript and a 90-day deadline and we finished early! I have even helped edit a few books in the past, so I thought I knew what I was doing. Maggie taught me so much! She made me a better writer, organized the outline, and basically kept us on track. I’ve already recommended her to multiple aspiring authors, so if you want to hire her, get on her list! She’s about to be pretty busy. 🙂”

    — Jenny Magic, Founder, convinceandconvert.com

  • “I just want to thank you, because I feel really really really really proud of that piece that I put out today. It was the first time I want so personal. I feel seen And that feels good. So thank you because I don’t know without your help if I would have actually pushed that one out. Maybe it would have just swirled around in my brain for years. So looking forward to the next one!”

    — Sharon Stolt, sharonstolt.com