Gloria Frym

Gloria Frym is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist.

Biography

Gloria Frym was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Los Angeles. She earned her Master of Art and Bachelor of Art degrees at the University of New Mexico where she studied with the poet Robert Creeley.[1]

In the 1980s, she taught creative writing at San Francisco State University, as well as the San Francisco county jails. During this time, she became interested in elements of language poetry and other theory-based poetics and began writing prose poems, developing into the prose narrative.[2] From 1987 to 2002, she was core faculty in the poetics program at the New College of California in San Francisco, founded for the poet Robert Duncan.[3]

Frym taught as guest faculty in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.[4] She was a 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 Evergreen State College; The Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee; Western Connecticut State University; Scripps College; 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 Professor Emerita in the Master of Fine Art and Bachelor of Art Writing & Literature Programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.[5]

Awards and honors

Frym won the American Book Award for Homeless at Home in 2002.[6]

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 was twice recipient of the Fund for Poetry Award (cite).

Selected publications

  • Lies More Lies, BlazeVOX Books, 2025
  • How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays, BlazeVOX Books, 2020
  • The True Patriot, Spuyten Duyvil, 2015
  • The Stage Stop Motel, Spuyten Duyvil, 2014
  • Mind Over Matter, BlazeVOX Books, 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, City Lights Books, 1999
  • How I Learned, Coffee House Press, 1992
  • By Ear, Sun and Moon Press, 1991
  • Three Counts, San Francisco Arts Commission, 1988
  • Back to Forth, The Figures, 1982
  • Second Stories: Interviews with Women Artists, Chronicle Books, 1979
  • Impossible Affection, Christopher's Books, 1979

References

  1. ^ Papers of Gloria Frym UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  2. ^ "Jacket 16 - Sarah Rosenthal reviews Homeless at Home, by Gloria Frym". www.jacketmagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  3. ^ Gloria Frym City Lights Authors Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  4. ^ Guest Faculty Naropa Summer Writing Program 2009 Retrieved 2010-01-17
  5. ^ Bio of Gloria Frym California College of the Arts Faculty Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  6. ^ Gloria Frym KQED Public Media. Retrieved 2010-01-13.