A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was published in the University of Arizona Press Sun Tracks series. Frazier’s honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, the Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Studio & Research Residency Siena. The University of Arizona Press released his second collection of poems, Aurum, in 2019. He is the 2024-2025 Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University.
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