St. Lawrence University Writers Series presents Santee Frazier

CNTON -- St. Lawrence University Writers Series presents Santee Frazier Thursday, Feb. 6,  in the Sykes Common Room at 8 p.m.

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.

For over 50 years the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors including Pulitzer Prize winners. The events are free and open to the public. For additional information, contact the English Department 315-229-5125 or go to www.stlawu.edu/offices/english/about-english/about-writers-series.