American writer, poet and academic
Frances Payne Adler |
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| Born | 1942 |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet and academic |
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Frances Payne Adler (born 1942) is an American writer, poet and academic currently residing in Portland, Oregon.[1]
Adler was a member of the faculty at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), in California, for over 17 years until her retirement in 2006.[2] She founded CSUMB's Creative Writing and Social Action Program in 1996, for which she served as Director until her retirement. She continued teaching online as Professor Emerita until 2011.[2]
Adler claims to have coined the neologism "matriot," in contrast to the "patriot,"[3] which was used in the title of her poetry book "The Making of a Matriot."[4] Adler discusses the definition and the origin of matriot in an article on the Tikkun blog.[5]
Adler's current work is a collaborative exhibition of poems, photographs and videos, “Dare I Call You Cousin,” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict featuring work by Jerusalem photographer Michal Fattal, and Tel Aviv videographer Yossi Yacov.[6]
Her poems and prose have also been published in Poetry International, Women's Review of Books, Calyx, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Centennial Review, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.
Selected awards
Adler 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.[7]
