Frannie Zellman received her MA in creative writing from Boston University in 1980 and blames none of her professors for what she has done or written since.

She is a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and has taught writing workshops for people of size. She is the editor of Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, which will be published by Pearlsong Press in May 2009. She remains an active member of the Fat Poets' Society and has recently started an online fiction writing group called the Fat Fiction Forum.