Fran Abrams began writing poetry at the age of 73 after retiring from her career in government and nonprofit administration. Her poems appear in numerous journals and in more than 20 anthologies and have been published in five collections, most recently “Traveling on the Number Nine Bus,” “Nonet Poems,” “from Kelsay Books,” and “Nearby Voices: Persona Poems,” a chapbook from Bottlecap Press. Fran was co-editor of an anthology of poems, including her own, titled “Echoes through the Stacks.” One of her poems was nominated by Gargoyle Magazine for a Pushcart Prize in 2023. Fran lives in Rockville, Md.

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