Helen Marie Frost (born March 4, 1949) is an American writer and poet. She is best known for the young-adult novel Keesha's House, which was a Michael L. Printz Award honor book in 2004.[1]
Helen Frost
Born
(1949-03-04) March 4, 1949 (age 75) South Dakota, U.S.
Frost was born in South Dakota, the fifth child in a family of ten children. She studied elementary education at Syracuse University.[1] Frost graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in elementary education and a concentration in English, with Philip Booth and W. D. Snodgrass among her teachers. She received her master's degree in English from Indiana University in 1994. Since then, she has become the author of nine novels-in-poems and six picture books. Frost loves to travel. She has traveled to many countries, including Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Scotland, England, Ireland, China, Japan, Denmark, Germany, and Myanmar, where she was part of a 2016 delegation from Fort Wayne to establish a Friendship City with Mawlamyine. Frost also enjoys hiking, swimming, beadwork, and gardening (especially to welcome birds and monarch butterflies). Since 1991, she has lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Before that she moved frequently, living in Scotland, Vermont, Colorado, Alaska, Oregon, and California. In Scotland, she taught at Kilquhanity House School, a progressive boarding school in the tradition of Summerhill. In Alaska, she taught for three years in a one-teacher school in Telida, an Athabascan community of about 25 people, and later taught fifth grade in Ketchikan.
Frost is married to Chad Thompson, a linguist and musician, and they live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They have two sons, Lloyd and Glen.
Throughout her career, writing and teaching have been inter-woven threads. She has published poetry, children's books, anthologies, and a play, as well as a book about teaching writing. She has taught writing at all levels, from pre-school through university and adult education. Frost has also received an Indiana Author Award, a Boston Public Library Literary Lights for Children award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry.[2]
^Doctorow, Cory (4 April 2012). "Step Gently Out: kid's poem illustrated with gorgeous macro-photo portraits of backyard bugs". Boing Boing. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
^"City author wins plaudits". Journal Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
Sources
. Contemporary Authors. Gale. January 1, 2005. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2013 – via HighBeam.
External linksedit
Official website
March 16, 2024
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