Frances Payne Adler

{{short description|American writer, poet and academic}}

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Frances Payne Adler (born 1942) is an American writer, poet and academic currently residing in Portland, Oregon.{{cite web |title=AWP: Directory of Members |url=https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/2951/adler_frances_p |website=www.awpwriter.org}}

Adler was a member of the faculty at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), in California, for over 17 years until her retirement in 2006. She founded CSUMB's Creative Writing and Social Action Program in 1996, for which she served as Director until her retirement. She continued teaching online as Professor Emerita until 2011.{{cite web |title=FRANCES P ADLER {{!}} Transparent California |url=http://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/2012/calpers/frances-p-adler/ |website=transparentcalifornia.com}}

Adler claims to have coined the neologism "matriot," in contrast to the "patriot,"{{cite web |title=Matriot - Definition |url=http://www.kiracorser.com/matriot/exhibit/Matriot%27s_Definition.html |website=www.kiracorser.com |access-date=2014-08-31 |archive-date=2019-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521110632/http://www.kiracorser.com/matriot/exhibit/Matriot%27s_Definition.html |url-status=dead }} which was used in the title of her poetry book "The Making of a Matriot."{{cite book|ref=matriot|last1=Payne Adler|first1=Frances|title=The making of a matriot|date=2003-09-01|publisher=Red Hen Press|location=Los Angeles, California, USA|isbn=9781888996739|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/makingofmatriotp00adle}} Adler discusses the definition and the origin of matriot in an article on the Tikkun blog.{{cite web |title=Calling for a Matriot Revolution |url=https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2018/03/02/calling-for-a-matriot-revolution/ |website=www.tikkun.org}}

Adler's current work is a collaborative exhibition of poems, photographs and videos, “Dare I Call You Cousin,” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict featuring work by Jerusalem photographer Michal Fattal, and Tel Aviv videographer Yossi Yacov.{{cite news |title="I Have Decided to Stick with Love" |url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/i-have-decided-to-stick-with-love/ |work=YES! Magazine}}

Her poems and prose have also been published in Poetry International, Women's Review of Books, Calyx, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Centennial Review, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.