Name Frances Adler | Role Writer | |
Books Raising the Tents, The making of a matriot, poetry and prose, 1991-2003 | ||
Frances Payne Adler (born 1942) is an American writer, poet and academic.
Adler was employed from 1988 by the California State University, Monterey Bay. She acted as the Director of Creative Writing and Social Action Program until her retirement in 2006.
Adler lives in Oregon.
She has won numerous awards including a California State Senate Award for Artistic and Social Collaboration, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Margaret Sanger Award, and a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Award. Adler’s Raising the Tents was a Western States Book Award finalist.
Adler claims to have coined the neologism "matriot", in contrast to the "patriot", which was used in the title of her poetry book "The Making of a Matriot"
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