About

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, Off the Books, earned positive reviews from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus (starred review), Publishers Weekly and others, and was included in Bustle‘s “Most Anticipated” roundup. Her essays and interviews are featured in People Magazine,* Electric Literature, Literary Hub and Radio Free Asia. Soma’s piece in Eat, Darling, Eat is archived at the U.S. Library of Congress.

Soma’s next novel is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co./Macmillan. Before turning to longer-form work, she published short stories in three prose chapbooks: Salve, Don’t Give Up on Alan Greenspan and Collateral Damage: A Triptych. You can also find her writing in ZYZZYVA, Hyphen, Story, Glimmer Train, The Mississippi Review, Eclectica Magazine, Carve Magazine, Kore Press and elsewhere — or read early interviews with CBS, SF Weekly, Women’s Quarterly Conversation and more. Her poems and stories have earned numerous awards and accolades; been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named Notable by the storySouth Million Writers Award. Her screenplays have earned nods from HBO, Screencraft, Bluecat and the International Screenwriters Association.

In 2019, Soma relocated from California — where she served as a San Francisco Library Laureate — to New York, for a professorship in creative writing and digital storytelling at the State University of New York at Oswego. There, she founded Subnivean, an undergraduate-staffed literary publication that the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses named one of four national finalists in the Firecracker Awards category Magazines: Best Debut. Before joining SUNY Oswego’s faculty, Soma taught at the University of San Francisco, University of Silicon Valley, Oakland School for the Arts, Holy Names University, Gavilan College, the Sarah Lawrence College Summer High School Writers Program and Valhalla Women’s Correctional Facility, and worked at KQED, a premier national public media source located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

*(Soma did not write the essay title or subtitle used by People Magazine. The essay’s original title is “Flowers From Family.”)

Literary Agent:
Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates