Fran Abrams

Fran Abrams spent 40 years writing legislation, regulations, memos and reports in government and nonprofit organizations. She turned to writing poetry in 2017 after retiring and being a visual artist for many years. Her poems have been published online and in print in Delmarva Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Raven’s Perch, Gargoyle 74, and other journals, and in over a dozen anthologies. In 2019, she read at Houston (TX) Poetry Fest and at DiVerse Gaithersburg (MD) Poetry Series. In December 2021, she won the Washington Writers Publishing House Winter Poetry Prize. Her autobiographical book of poems titled “I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir,” was released in November 2022. Her chapbook, “The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras,” (Finishing Line Press) will be released in March 2023. Please visit franabramspoetry.com for more.