Patricia Frolander (born 1942) is an American

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originally from

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. She was poet laureate of

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from November 7, 2011, to June 9, 2013. Frolander began writing poetry in the mid-1990s. She has written five poetry collections, including ''Grassland Genealogy'' (2009), ''Married Into It'' (2011), and ''Second Wind'' (2020). She won the 17th Annual National Senior Poets Laureate Competition in 2009. In 2011, she won the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award, sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Council. She owns and lives on their family ranch in

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in the

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area of Wyoming, where she has lived since 1969. She has one son, two daughters, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was widowed in October 2016.

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Living people American women poets Writers from Wyoming Poets laureate of Wyoming 1943 births 21st-century American women 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1940s-stub