Fran Herndon has lived in the Bay Area since the late '50s. Prior to this time
she lived and worked for two years in France where she met and married the
writer Jim Herndon. She collaborated with Jack Spicer on Heads of Town up to
the Aether (lithographs) and on J magazine. Her sports collages were later
published in Everything as Expected with narrative by Jim Herndon. Some of
these collages were later reprinted in Golem (Granary Books, 1999) as an
accompaniment to Spicer's Fix poems Her work was also featured on a 2003
holiday broadside printed by the Rare Book Collection of the State University of
New York at Buffalo and is also forthcoming in Five Fingers Review. She
recently showed her work at the Canessa Park Gallery in San Francisco, CA.