Gloria Frym is an

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, fiction writer, and essayist. __TOC__

Biography

Gloria Frym was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Los Angeles. She also lived in New Mexico for many years. She earned her MA and BA degrees at the

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where she studied with the poet

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. In the 1980s, she taught creative writing at

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, as well as the San Francisco county jails. During this time, she became interested in elements of

language poetry The Language poets (or ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' poets, after the magazine of that name) are an avant-garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The poets included: Bernadette Mayer, Leslie Scalap ...

and other theory-based poetics and began writing prose poems, developing into the prose narrative. From 1987 to 2002, she was core faculty in the poetics program at the

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in San Francisco, founded for the poet Robert Duncan. Frym is frequently guest faculty in the Summer Writing Program at

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in Boulder, Colorado. She has served as Distinguished Writer in Residence at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California and visiting professor of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. She has guest lectured at

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; The Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee;

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;

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; the American Embassy Cultural Centers, Nagoya and Kyoto, Japan; New Langton Arts and Intersection in San Francisco; and The Chautauqua Institution in New York. She is currently Professor in the MFA and BA Writing & Literature Programs at

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in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Awards and honors

Frym's book ''Homeless at Home'' won a 2002

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.Gloria Frym
KQED Public Media. Retrieved 2010-01-13. Her other honors include the San Francisco State University Poetry Center Book Award, grants from the California Arts Council and The Walter and Elise Haas Creative Work Fund, and two awards from the Fund for Poetry.

Selected publications

*''How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays'',

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, 2020 *''The True Patriot'', Spuyten Duyvil, 2015 *''The Stage Stop Motel'', Spuyten Duyvil, 2014 *''Mind Over Matter'',

, 2011 *''Any Time Soon'', Little Red Leaves, 2010 *''The Lost Sappho Poems'', Effing Press, 2007 *''Solution Simulacra'', United Artists, 2006 *''Homeless at Home'', Creative Arts Book Company, 2001 *''Distance No Object'',

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, 1999 *''How I Learned'',

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, 1992 *''By Ear'', Sun and Moon Press, 1991 *''Three Counts'',

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, 1988 *''Back to Forth'', The Figures, 1982 *''Second Stories: Interviews with Women Artists'',

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, 1979 *''Impossible Affection'', Christopher's Books, 1979

References

External links

Poetry Foundation review of ''The Lost Sappho Poems''

Publishers Weekly review of ''How I Learned''
* Rain Taxi review o
''Mind Over Matter''
* American Book review of ''The True Patriot'

* Featherboard Writing Series revie

* Interview with Rebecca Samuelson, The Write Stuff Serie

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