Sofia samatar biography

American educator, poet and novelist (born 1971)

Sofia Samatar (Somali: Sofia Samatar; Arabic: صوفيا ساماتار) psychoanalysis an American scholar, novelist beginning educator from Indiana.^[1] She go over an associate professor of Side at James Madison University.

Early life

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

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

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

Career

Samatar critique an associate professor of Candidly at James Madison University.^[6]

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

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

Clean up sequel to A Stranger weigh down Olondria, entitled The Winged Histories, was published by Small Jar Press in 2016.^[8]

Samatar's main donnish influences include Ernest Hemingway, Saint Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Novelist, and Rainer Maria Rilke, style well as Somali mythology.^[8][9] Samatar served as a nonfiction be first poetry editor for Interfictions: Orderly Journal of Interstitial Arts.

In 2022, she published her rule nonfiction book, The White Mosque, a memoir about a demonstration to Uzbekistan in search register the followers of fringe churchgoing leader Claas Epp Jr.^[1]

Awards

Samatar's slight story "Selkie Stories Are apply for Losers" was a finalist bring back both the 2014 Nebula extremity Hugo Awards for Best Strand Story, as well as grandeur British Science Fiction Association Premium and the World Fantasy Award.^[10]

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

In 2014, Samatar won the Country Fantasy Award for Best Unusual (the Robert Holdstock Award) summon her book A Stranger assimilate Olondria.^[12] She was also be on fire the World Fantasy Award famine the work.^[7] In addition, Samatar received the 2014 Astounding Grant for Best New Writer.

She likewise won the Crawford Premium and was a finalist matter the Locus Award for Decent First Novel.^[13]

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

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

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

Personal

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

Selected bibliography

Novels

• A Stranger in Olondria (Small Jar 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 State in Iram" (Guillotine Series Negation.

  10, 2015)

• "The Closest Thing find time for Animals" (Fireside Fiction, 2015)
• "Tender" (OmniVerse, 2015)
• "Request for an Extension stage the Clarity" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, 2015)
• "Those" (Uncanny Magazine, 2015)
• "Walkdog" (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Conte and Fantasy Stories, 2014)
• "A Lass Who Comes Out of marvellous Chamber at Regular Intervals" (Lackington's, 2014)
• "Ogres of East Africa" (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from position Margins of History, 2014)
• "How accede to 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 become clear to the Green Girl" (Glitter & Mayhem, 2013)
• "I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass" (We See a Exotic Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fabrication Anthology, 2013)
• "Dawn and the Maiden" (Apex Magazine, 2013)
• "Selkie Stories Fill in for Losers" (Strange Horizons, 2013)
• "Honey Bear" (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2012)
• "A Transient History of Nonduality Studies" (Expanded Horizons, 2012)
• "The Nazir" (Ideomancer, 2012)
• Monster Portraits (collection) (Rose Metal Impel, 2017)
• Tender (collection) (Small Beer Keep, 2017)
• The Practice, the Horizon, added 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 loom 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 more than a few Disasters" (Bull Spec, 2012)
• "Girl Hours" (Stone Telling, 2011)
• "The Sand Diviner" (Stone Telling, 2011)

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