Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's writing has earned numerous nods and awards. She has been published in People, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train, the Mississippi Review, Hyphen, and Story, among others. She served as a San Francisco Library Laureate before relocating from California to New York for a professorship in creative writing at SUNY Oswego. Frazier has also taught at Oakland School for the Arts, the University of San Francisco, Valhalla Women's Correctional Facility and elsewhere-and she worked at KQED, a premier national public media source in the Bay Area. Soma spends her free time with her kid, also known as her road dog, driving from swimming pool to swimming pool across the U.S., literally testing the waters.