Career
Adler was employed from 1988 by the California State University, Monterey Bay. She acted as the Director of Creative Writing and Social Action Program until her retirement in 2006. Adler lives in Oregon.
Adler’s Raising the Tents was a Western States Book Award finalist.
Adler claims to have coined the neologism "matriot", in contrast to the "patriot", which was used in the title of her poetry book "".
