Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet. She was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Early years

Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California. She graduated from Occidental College.

Career

During her teaching career at San Francisco State University from 1972 to 1992, she directed The Poetry Center and founded The American Poetry Archives; she also wrote and narrated the one-hour video Women Working in Literature. Fraser was co-founder and co-editor, with Beverly Dahlen and Frances Jaffer, later joined by Susan Gevirtz, of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever. From 1983-1991, Fraser published and edited HOW(ever) as "a journal focused on innovative writing by contemporary women and neglected texts by American modernist women writers". She died February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California.

Works