Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is a biracial American author living in Oakland, California. With a new chapbook forthcoming from Nomadic Press in March 2016, her debut fiction collection, Collateral Damage: A Triptych, earned praise from Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Nikki Giovanni, Antonya Nelson, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Molly Giles and others and won the 2013 RopeWalk Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Contest. Frazier’s work has also been singled out by Robert Olen Butler, who read her short fiction chapbook;[1] Jim Shepard, Frederick Barthelme and others. She has been recognized by established publications including Zoetrope, ZYZZYVA and Glimmer Train - for which, after earning first place in a contest, she wrote this brief article on literary craft - as well as the Mississippi Review,[2] where her first published story appeared in the 2009 MR Prize issue. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and one of her award-winning short fiction pieces, which first appeared in Carve Magazine, was named a Notable Story by the storySouth Million Writers Award authors.[3]

Frazier serves as Assistant Professor and Chair at Cogswell Polytechnical College. Previously, she served 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 where she served as Senior Editor for 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.[4] Her most recent literary project is COG, a multimedia publication that she launched with her student staff at Cogswell Polytechnical College.

Works Cited

  1. ↑ http://www.usi.edu/libarts/english/news.asp
  2. ↑ Barthelme, Frederick, Ed. "Mississippi Review: A Journal of Contemporary Literature." Vol 37, #1&2
  3. ↑ http://carvezine.com/2009-summer-frazier/
  4. ↑ http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-lit-on-block-enizagam.html

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