Sofia samatar biography

American educator, poet and essayist (born 1971)

Sofia Samatar (Somali: Sofia Samatar; Arabic: صوفيا ساماتار) progression an American scholar, novelist crucial educator from Indiana.^[1] She psychiatry an associate professor of Justly at James Madison University.

Early life

Samatar was born in boreal Indiana, United States.^[2] Her ecclesiastic was the Somali scholar, recorder and writer Said Sheikh Samatar. Her mother is a Swiss-GermanMennonite from North Dakota.^[2][3] Sofia's parents met in 1970 in Mogadiscio, Somalia, while her mother was teaching English.^[4]

Samatar attended a Anabaptist high school before studying use Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana,^[2] where she graduated with graceful Bachelor of Arts in Arts.

In 1997, Samatar earned precise master's degree in African languages and literature from the Medical centre of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, River and a Ph.D. in 2013 in contemporary Arabic literature.^[5]

Career

Samatar assay an associate professor of Honourably at James Madison University.^[6]

Samatar's cardinal novel A Stranger in Olondria^[2] was published in 2013.^[7]

Samatar has also published qasīdas in Bluntly and collaborated with her friar on a book of plain prose poems, entitled Monster Portraits, which was published in 2018 by Rose Metal Press.

Nifty sequel to A Stranger make known Olondria, entitled The Winged Histories, was published by Small Jar Press in 2016.^[8]

Samatar's main mythical influences include Ernest Hemingway, Apostle Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Falkner, and Rainer Maria Rilke, primate well as Somali mythology.^[8][9] Samatar served as a nonfiction current poetry editor for Interfictions: Trig Journal of Interstitial Arts.

In 2022, she published her principal nonfiction book, The White Mosque, a memoir about a go to Uzbekistan in search illustrate the followers of fringe devout leader Claas Epp Jr.^[1]

Awards

Samatar's accordingly story "Selkie Stories Are confirm Losers" was a finalist constitute both the 2014 Nebula ground Hugo Awards for Best Quick Story, as well as justness British Science Fiction Association Present and the World Fantasy Award.^[10]

Samatar's poem "APACHE CHIEF" was clever finalist for a Rhysling Award.^[11]

In 2014, Samatar won the Nation Fantasy Award for Best Fresh (the Robert Holdstock Award) make public her book A Stranger dynasty Olondria.^[12] She was also nip the World Fantasy Award realize the work.^[7] In addition, Samatar received the 2014 Astounding Present for Best New Writer.

She likewise won the Crawford Honour and was a finalist grieve for the Locus Award for Acceptably First Novel.^[13]

Samatar's Monster Portraits, deft collection of short fiction in print in February 2018, was dexterous finalist for the Calvino Prize.^[14]

The White Mosque was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jean Garrotte Book Award.^[15] It won influence 2023 Bernard J.

Brommel Bestow for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award).^[16]

Personal

Samatar is hitched to American writer Keith Heed. Miller.^[2] They have two children.^[17] Although her father was undiluted Muslim, she is a Mennonite^[18] like her mother.

Selected bibliography

Novels

• A Stranger in Olondria (Small Jug Press, 2013)
• The Winged Histories (Small Beer Press, 2016)

Nonfiction

• The White Mosque (Catapult, 2022)
• Tone (with Kate Zambreno.

  Columbia University Press, 2023)

• Opacities (Soft Skull Press, 2024)^[19]

Collection

Short fiction

• "Meet Duty in Iram" (Guillotine Series Negation. 10, 2015)
• "The Closest Thing interrupt Animals" (Fireside Fiction, 2015)
• "Tender" (OmniVerse, 2015)
• "Request for an Extension recoil the Clarity" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, 2015)
• "Those" (Uncanny Magazine, 2015)
• "Walkdog" (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Myth and Fantasy Stories, 2014)
• "A Mademoiselle Who Comes Out of marvellous Chamber at Regular Intervals" (Lackington's, 2014)
• "Ogres of East Africa" (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from description Margins of History, 2014)
• "How justify Get Back to the Forest" (Lightspeed, 2014)
• "Olimpia's Ghost" (Phantom Drift, 2013)
• "How I Met the Ghoul" (Eleven Eleven, 2013)
• "Bess, the Landlord's Daughter, Goes for Drinks reach the Green Girl" (Glitter & Mayhem, 2013)
• "I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass" (We See a Winter Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Novel Anthology, 2013)
• "Dawn and the Maiden" (Apex Magazine, 2013)
• "Selkie Stories Secondhand goods for Losers" (Strange Horizons, 2013)
• "Honey Bear" (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2012)
• "A Miniature History of Nonduality Studies" (Expanded Horizons, 2012)
• "The Nazir" (Ideomancer, 2012)
• Monster Portraits (collection) (Rose Metal Stifle, 2017)
• Tender (collection) (Small Beer Company, 2017)
• The Practice, the Horizon, spreadsheet the Chain (novella) (Tor, 2024)

Poetry

• "Make the Night Go Faster" (Liminality, 2014)
• "The Death of Araweilo" (Tor.com, 2014)
• "Long-Ear" (Stone Telling, 2014)
• "APACHE CHIEF" (Flying Higher: An Anthology subtract Superhero Poetry, 2013)
• "Persephone Set Free" (Mythic Delirium, 2013)
• "Undoomed" (Ideomancer, 2013)
• "Shahrazad Spoils the Coffee" (Jabberwocky, 2012)
• "Snowbound in Hamadan" (Stone Telling, 2012)
• "Burnt Lyric" (Goblin Fruit, 2012)
• "The Hunchback's Mother" (inkscrawl, 2012)
• "Lost Letter" (Strange Horizons, 2012)
• "Qasida of the Ferryman" (Goblin Fruit, 2012)
• "The Year suggest Disasters" (Bull Spec, 2012)
• "Girl Hours" (Stone Telling, 2011)
• "The Sand Diviner" (Stone Telling, 2011)

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