Gloria Frym
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Biography
Gloria Frym is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She grew up in Los Angeles and lived in New Mexico for many years. She earned her MA and BA degrees at the University of New Mexico where she studied with the poet Robert CreeleyRobert Creeley
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
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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.
From 1987 to 2002, she was core faculty in the poetics program at the New College of California in San Francisco, originally founded for the poet Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan (poet)
Robert Duncan was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black...
. She is currently Associate Professor in the MFA and BA Writing & Literature Programs at California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts , founded in 1907, is known for its broad, interdisciplinary programs in art, design, architecture, and writing. It has two campuses, one in Oakland and one in San Francisco, California, USA...
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her book Homeless at Home won a 2002 American Book Award
American Book Award
The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
. 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.
Frym is frequently guest faculty in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University
Naropa University
Naropa University is a private American liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Oxford University scholar Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda.Naropa describes itself as...
in Boulder, CO. 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 Evergreen State College; The Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee; Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT; Scripps College, Claremont; the American Embassy Cultural Centers, Nagoya and Kyoto, Japan; New Langton Arts and Intersection in San Francisco; and The Chautauqua Institution in New York.
Selected publications
- 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 Art Commission, 1988
- Back to Forth, The Figures, 1982
- Second Stories: Interviews with Women Artists, Chronicle Books, 1979
- Impossible Affection, Christopher’s Books, 1979