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Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is a biracial American author living in the Syracuse region and serving as a professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she founde
Subnivean
(an internationally-read literary publication that was named a 2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards finalist in its first year of operation). Frazier’s debut novel, ''Off the Books,'' is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. (Macmillan) in July 2024. Until 2019, she lived in the
RopeWalk Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Contest
although, pe
Frazier's website
the first story in the collection was truncated by the publisher. Frazier's writing has placed in literary competitions offered by
this brief article on literary craft
She has earned multiple
Carve Magazine
was named a Notable Story by the story South Million Writers Award authors. Print work is available in ''Glimmer Train,'' issue 96, and ''ZYZZYVA,'' issue 106. She acts as final judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Frazier serves as a Creative Writing professor at SUNY Oswego. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor and Chair at
Enizagam
a publication that she overhauled in 2011 to become the first nationally known literary journal written by and for adults, but published by an urban secondary school staff.http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-lit-on-block-enizagam.html Her most recent literary project i
Subnivean
a multimedia publication that she launched with her undergraduate student staff at SUNY Oswego.
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frazier, Soma Mei Sheng American women writers Living people Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is a biracial American author living in the Syracuse region and serving as a professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she foundeSubnivean
(an internationally-read literary publication that was named a 2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards finalist in its first year of operation). Frazier’s debut novel, ''Off the Books,'' is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. (Macmillan) in July 2024. Until 2019, she lived in the
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a List of regions of California, region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, S ...
, where she served as a 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate. Her award-winning fiction chapbooks, ''Don't Give Up on Alan Greenspan'' (CutBank), ''Salve'' (Nomadic Press) and ''Collateral Damage: A Triptych'' (Ropewalk Press), earned praise from Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recor ...
, Antonya Nelson, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Molly Giles, Michelle Tea and others. ''Collateral Damage: A Triptych'' won the 201RopeWalk Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Contest
although, pe
Frazier's website
the first story in the collection was truncated by the publisher. Frazier's writing has placed in literary competitions offered by
HBO
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, ''Zoetrope: All-Story,'' the ''Mississippi Review'' and more. Her online work has been published by ''Hyphen Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Carve Magazine, Eleven Eleven'' and Kore Press, and she has been interviewed by CBS
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, ''SF Weekly
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'' and ''Women's Quarterly Conversation,'' among others. After earning first place in a contest, Frazier wrotthis brief article on literary craft
She has earned multiple
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
nominations, and one of her award-winning short fiction pieces, which first appeared iCarve Magazine
was named a Notable Story by the story South Million Writers Award authors. Print work is available in ''Glimmer Train,'' issue 96, and ''ZYZZYVA,'' issue 106. She acts as final judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Frazier serves as a Creative Writing professor at SUNY Oswego. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor and Chair at
Cogswell College
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and as Associate Director of Foundation and Government Support at KQED, a San Francisco Bay Area public media source, and held the dual role of Literary Arts Chair and Director of Institutional Advancement at Oakland School for the Arts
Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) is a Visual arts, visual and performing arts charter school in Oakland, California, United States. OSA opened in 2002 with a curriculum that integrated college preparatory school, college preparatory academics wi ...
where she served as Senior Editor foEnizagam
a publication that she overhauled in 2011 to become the first nationally known literary journal written by and for adults, but published by an urban secondary school staff.http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-lit-on-block-enizagam.html Her most recent literary project i
Subnivean
a multimedia publication that she launched with her undergraduate student staff at SUNY Oswego.
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Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
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