Santee Frazier

Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he also served as director of the low residency MFA program, and an MFA from Syracuse University. The author of the poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009), he was the inaugural Native writer-in-residence at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and a Native Arts and Culture Foundation literature fellow. Frazier's other honors include a Truman Capote Scholarship and a Syracuse University Fellowship. His poems have appeared in American Poet, Narrative Magazine, Ontario Review, and other literary journals.