Frances Adler

Poet Frances Payne Adler is the author of five books: two poetry collections, Making of a Matriot (Red Hen Press) and Raising The Tents (Calyx); and three collaborative poetry-photography books and social acion art exhibitions with photographer Kira Carrillo Corser --When the Bough Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction (NewSage Press); Struggle to Be Borne; (San Diego State University Press) and Home Street Home (Red Cross) -- that have shown in galleries, universities, and state capitol buildings across the country. Their exhibition "A Matriot's Dream: Health Care For All" showed on Capitol Hill in the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

Adler's latest exhibition is "Dare I Call You Cousin," about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in collaboration with Israeli artists, photographer Michal Fattal and videographer Yossi Yacov.

Adler also co-edited Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press), with Debra Busman and Diana Garcia, which won the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Anthologies.

Her other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Award, a California State Senate Award for Artistic and Social Collaboration, and the New Millennium Obama Award. She was a finalist for the Western State Book Award, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Adler’s poems and prose have appeared in Poetry International, Women’s Review of Books, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Calyx, Fiction International, Exquisite Corpse, Bridges, Centennial Review, and Blood To Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, among others.

Adler is Professor Emerita and founder of the Creative Writing & Social Action Program at California State University Monterey Bay. She now lives in Portland, Oregon.