Gloria Frym is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist.
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Biography Gloria Frym was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Los Angeles. She earned her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees at the University of New Mexico where she studied with the poet Robert Creeley.Papers of Gloria Frym UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library Retrieved 2010-01-17.
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, founded for the poet Robert Duncan.Gloria Frym City Lights Authors Retrieved 2010-01-17.
Frym taught as guest faculty in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.Guest Faculty Naropa Summer Writing Program 2009 Retrieved 2010-01-17 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 Arts in Writing and Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature Programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.Bio of Gloria Frym California College of the Arts Faculty Retrieved 2013-07-26.
Awards and honors Frym won the American Book Award for Homeless at Home in 2002.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 was twice recipient of the Fund for Poetry Award.
Public Installations '"The War is Going Well" (Poem), Way Bay Wall, Lawrence Rinder, curator, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. 2017–2018. '"Only Two Know the Meaning of Us" (Poem), Addison Street Poetry Walk curated by Robert Hass, John N. Roberts, architect. 2003–present.
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
Select Reviews & External links Fence Digital: Review of How Proust Ruined my Life & Other Essays Fence Digital: Dale Martin Smith, "Gloria Frym on Reading" Rain Taxi: Lewis Warsh interviews Gloria Frym on The True Patriot Quiet Lightening: Sidney Armstrong interviews Gloria Frym "Making History Real" Posit Journal 37: Editor's Notes Poetry Foundation review of The Lost Sappho Poems Jacket Magazine review of Solution Simulacra Publishers Weekly review of How I Learned Rain Taxi review of Mind Over Matter American Book review of The True Patriot Featherboard Writing Series review Sarah Rosenthal reviews Homeless at Home Jacket Magazine 6/24/2002 Publishers Weekly review of Distance No Object The New York Times Book Review: How I Learned. February 28, 1993 Interview with Rebecca Samuelson, The Write Stuff Series