• Harsh and beautiful, yearning and deadly, the stories of Soma Mei Sheng Frazier will remind you of nothing less than the whole wide world.   —Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket

    Brilliant is a word usually associated with diamonds therefore this is the appropriate word for Soma Mei Sheng Frazier who writes like a young Toni Morrison: clear, clean yet heart skipping for all the things she is not telling. Crisp. Deliciously enticing as the story unfolds. Soma is a wonderful writer on the rise. Perhaps I should have started this story with the first star of evening, visible to our planet but harking of another shore, lighting our sky. We walk the beach with her. And the tide pulls the diamonds to our hands.   —Nikki Giovanni

Off the Books: Preorder from Barnes & Noble Now

Okay, this makes one nerdy writer’s day LIFE! I hear “I should have more written by now” or “I should be published already” from many of my students. Well, writing, for me, always takes longer than I think it will. Hell, most worthwhile things do. And in the interim, nerds like us can freak ourselves … Continue reading

Off the Books Available for Preorder

Since 2019, I’ve spent my nights in a well-worn armchair—late enough to aurally pinpoint the tree where a great horned owl calls out in the darkness beyond my window—and written a novel about college dropout Mei, who does her best to mind her own business but gets tangled up in a dicey international issue. Here … Continue reading

Don’t Pinch Me Yet

So, my dream agent — the brilliant and badazz Victoria Sanders of the eponymous Victoria Sanders & Associates — just sold my debut novel to my dream editor at Holt/Macmillan for release in July 2024. Grateful to VSA’s all-star team for making this magic happen, and for their patience with my incessant, nerdy noodling on … Continue reading

Panel Alert

So proud of Subnivean student editors Mads Pearson and Shannon Sutorius, whose public discussion I moderated at the 2021 national Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) Colloquium. And it was such a pleasure to speak on a later FUSE panel alongside Daniel O’Malley, author of The Rook. Next up: AWP 2022. Subnivean is headed to … Continue reading

story in STORY

In the midst of novel revisions, it’s great to take a break and write work one can complete in days, not months/years. A new short piece is forthcoming the legendary STORY magazine. I’ve always admired STORY for publishing literary luminaries from Richard Wright to Truman Capote to Charles Bukowski to Junot Diaz to Joyce Carol … Continue reading

2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards

How do our babies grow up so quickly? Subnivean—an internationally-read literary publication that I developed for SUNY undergraduates to staff, which has now received submissions from authors working in 48 countries and 48 U.S. states, plus the United States Virgin Islands—has been named a finalist in the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards. This national award will be presented by the Community of … Continue reading

New Year, New Anthology

Huzzah! Foglifter Press, which recently won the prestigious Whiting Award, will release Home is Where You Queer Your Heart in March ’21.

Subnivean.org

\ ¦Səb¦nivēən \ Adj: situated or transpiring under the snow Noun: a subnivean zone offering warmth and shelter Noun: an international publication elevating and amplifying high-caliber prose, poetry, audio and video — staffed by undergraduates at SUNY Oswego, where four times more snow falls on our city than Manhattan. We may be the new kids … Continue reading

Hyphen Magazine: New Story Featured in Arts & Culture Section

Humbled and honored, in a time of larger, hard-won victories and so many tragedies, to have a new story featured in the Arts & Culture section of Hyphen Magazine. If you read “Any Old Patient,” I’d love to hear your thoughts–as this piece deviates from my usual style, and was based on an actual event.

Notes from the Motherfield: August 2020

It’s been an absolute honor to be a part of Kore Press’s Notes from the Motherfield, alongside literary superstars including Toi Dericotte, Beth Alvarado, Khadijah Queen and so many others. I’m delighted to announce that Kore is taking its popular series, Notes from the Motherfield LIVE, online again in August 2020 and that I’ll be … Continue reading