somafrazier

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, Off the Books, is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. in July 2024.

Soma is Founding Editor of Subnivean, the undergraduate-staffed literary publication of the State University of New York at Oswego. Her work has won nods from authors and entities ranging from HBO to Zoetrope: All-Story, Glimmer Train, HYPHEN, The Sewanee Review and The Mississippi Review; from Nikki Giovanni to Daniel “Lemony Snicket” Handler, Gish Jen to Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, and Michelle Tea to Billy Collins.

She has published three award-winning prose chapbooks: Salve, Don’t Give Up on Alan Greenspan and Collateral Damage: A Triptych. You can also find her stories, poems and essays in ZYZZYVA, Hyphen, Story, Glimmer Train (RIP), The Mississippi Review, Eclectica Magazine, Carve Magazine, Kore Press and elsewhere — or read her interviews with CBS, SF Weekly, Women’s Quarterly Conversation and more. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and earned numerous accolades including being named Notable by the storySouth Million Writers Award.

Soma has taught at the Sarah Lawrence College Summer High School Writers Program, the University of San Francisco, University of Silicon Valley, 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 2019, Soma 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 the State University of New York at Oswego.  

Literary Agent:
Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates