somafrazier

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s work has earned nods and awards from authors and entities ranging from Nikki Giovanni to Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket to Sarah Shun-lien Byunum to Billy Collins; from HBO to Zoetrope: All-Story. Her shorter work appears in Glimmer Train, ZYZZYVA, Hyphen, The Mississippi Review and elsewhere. Frazier recently relocated from California—where she’s served as a San Francisco Library Laureate—to New York, for a professorship in creative writing and digital storytelling at SUNY Oswego.

Soma recently completed her first novel, and joined the close-knit family of authors represented by Victoria Sanders & Associates.

Soma’s poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won accolades including being named Notable by the storySouth Million Writers Award. You can find her work by here, at the Books page, or online at Hyphen, Eclectica Magazine, Carve Magazine, Eleven Eleven and Kore Press – or read her interviews with CBS, SF Weekly and Women’s Quarterly Conversation. (Writers, consider trying the prompt in Soma’s brief Glimmer Train essay on literary craft.)

Before returning to her native East Coast, Soma served as Chair and Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Cogswell University of Silicon Valley. She’s taught at the Sarah Lawrence College Summer High School Writers Program, the University of San Francisco, Oakland School for the Arts, Holy Names University, Gavilan College and Valhalla Women’s Correctional Facility—and worked at KQED, a premier national public media source located in the Bay Area. In 2015 she founded COG, a multimedia literary publication that she ran with her undergraduate students at Cogswell, which has featured Dave Eggers, Chen Chen, Opal Palmer Adisa, Gish Jen, Denise Duhamel, Jacob Appel (featured in the documentary film Jacob) and many more. In 2020, she launched Subnivean, a publication staffed by undergraduates at SUNY Oswego.

Literary Agent:
Victoria Sanders & Associates