[5] He was awarded in 2012 the National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City.

[9] His novel Wild North was included in the list of best Mexican fiction of 2017 and published in the daily newspaper El Informador.

[12] He completed his undergraduate education at Portland State University, where he received a double BA in Liberal Studies and Literature.

[18][19][20] He contributed to the re-discovery of the 19-century novella Perico by Arcadio Zentella with his academic article, "Recuperando a "Perico" de Arcadio Zentella como un proyecto subalterno de liberación," published in 2013 by the journal A Contracorriente of North Carolina State University.

Franco currently lives in Mexico City, where he works as a legal analyst besides holding a remote interdisciplinary research position at the University of Pittsburgh.