Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,. Crossing Stones, Frances Foster Books,. Spinning Through the Universe, Frances Foster Books, 2004. 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. She has taught writing at all levels, from pre-school through university and adult education. She has published poetry, children's books, anthologies, and a play, as well as a book about teaching writing. Throughout her career, writing and teaching have been inter-woven threads. 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.įrost is married to Chad Thompson, a linguist and musician, and they live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In Scotland, she taught at Kilquhanity House School, a progressive boarding school in the tradition of Summerhill. Before that she moved frequently, living in Scotland, Vermont, Colorado, Alaska, Oregon, and California. 
Since 1991, she has lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Frost also enjoys hiking, swimming, beadwork, and gardening (especially to welcome birds and monarch butterflies). 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. Since then, she has become the author of nine novels-in-poems and six picture books. She received her master's degree in English from Indiana University in 1994. Frost graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in elementary education and a concentration in English, with Philip Booth and W. She studied elementary education at Syracuse University. įrost was born in South Dakota, the fifth child in a family of ten children.
She is best known for the young-adult novel Keesha's House, which was a Michael L. Helen Marie Frost (born March 4, 1949) is an American writer and poet.
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