Patricia Frolander (born 1942) is an American
poet
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originally from
Boston
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,
.
She was
poet laureate
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of
Wyoming
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from November 7, 2011, to June 9, 2013.
Frolander began writing poetry in the mid-1990s.
She has written five poetry collections,
including ''Grassland Genealogy'' (2009), ''Married Into It'' (2011), and ''Second Wind'' (2020). She won the 17th Annual National Senior Poets Laureate Competition in 2009. In 2011, she won the
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Memorial Writing Award, sponsored by the
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.
She owns and lives on their family ranch in
Sundance
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Sun dance or Sundance may also refer to:
Places
;Canada
*Sundance, Calgary, Alberta, a neighbourhood
*Sundance, Manitoba, a ghost town
;United States
* Sundance, New Mexico, a census-designated place ...
in the
Black Hills
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area of Wyoming,
where she has lived since 1969. She has one son, two daughters, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was widowed in October 2016.
References
Living people
American women poets
Writers from Wyoming
Poets Laureate of Wyoming
1943 births
21st-century American women
20th-century American poets
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