Frances Payne Adler

Frances Payne Adler
Born1942
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, poet and academic

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]

Bibliography

  • Raising the Tents (Calyx Books, 1993),
  • When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction (NewSage Press, 1993),
  • Struggle To Be Borne (San Diego State University Press, 1987),
  • Home Street Home (National Red Cross, 1984).
  • The Making of a Matriot,[8] published in 2003, and second edition in 2017.

References

  1. ^ "AWP: Directory of Members". www.awpwriter.org.
  2. ^ a b "FRANCES P ADLER | Transparent California". transparentcalifornia.com.
  3. ^ "Matriot - Definition". www.kiracorser.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
  4. ^ Payne Adler, Frances (2003-09-01). The making of a matriot. Los Angeles, California, USA: Red Hen Press. ISBN 9781888996739.
  5. ^ "Calling for a Matriot Revolution". www.tikkun.org.
  6. ^ ""I Have Decided to Stick with Love"". YES! Magazine.
  7. ^ "JOANN Stores Announces Handmade Heroes Award Winners". Naugatuck, CT Patch. 19 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hemans". Red Hen Press.

California State University, Monterey Bay faculty