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American educator, poet and writer (born 1971)
Sofia Samatar is an American scholar, novelist and educator from Indiana .[1] James Madison University .
Early life [ edit ]
Samatar was born in northern Indiana , United States .[2] Somali scholar, historian and writer Said Sheikh Samatar . Her mother is a Swiss -German Mennonite from North Dakota .[2] [3] Mogadishu , Somalia , while her mother was teaching English.[4]
Samatar attended a Mennonite high school before studying at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana ,[2] Bachelor of Arts in English. In 1997, Samatar earned a master's degree in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in 2013 in contemporary Arabic literature .[5]
Samatar is an associate professor of English at James Madison University .[6]
Samatar's first novel A Stranger in Olondria [2] [7]
Samatar has also published qasīdas in English and collaborated with her brother on a book of illustrated prose poems, entitled Monster Portraits , which was published in 2018 by Rose Metal Press. A sequel to A Stranger in Olondria , entitled The Winged Histories, was published by Small Beer Press in 2016.[8]
Samatar's main literary influences include Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce , Virginia Woolf , William Faulkner , and Rainer Maria Rilke , as well as Somali mythology .[8] [9] Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts .
In 2022, she published her first nonfiction book, The White Mosque , a memoir about a trip to Uzbekistan in search of the followers of fringe religious leader Claas Epp Jr. [1]
Samatar's short story "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" was a finalist for both the 2014 Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Short Story, as well as the British Science Fiction Association Award and the World Fantasy Award .[10]
Samatar's poem "APACHE CHIEF" was a finalist for a Rhysling Award .[11]
In 2014, Samatar won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award) for her book A Stranger in Olondria .[12] [7] Astounding Award for Best New WriterCrawford Award and was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel .[13]
Samatar's Monster Portraits, a collection of short fiction published in February 2018, was a finalist for the Calvino Prize.[14]
The White Mosque was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[15] [16]
Personal [ edit ]
Samatar is married to American writer Keith R. Miller.[2] [17] Muslim , she is a Mennonite[18]
Selected bibliography [ edit ]
Novels
A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013)
The Winged Histories (Small Beer Press, 2016)
Nonfiction
The White Mosque (Catapult, 2022)
Collection
Tender (Small Beer Press, 2017)[19]
Short fiction
"Meet Me in Iram" (Guillotine Series No. 10, 2015)
"The Closest Thing to Animals" (Fireside Fiction , 2015)
"Tender" (OmniVerse , 2015)
"Request for an Extension on the Clarity " (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet , 2015)
"Those" (Uncanny Magazine , 2015)
"Walkdog" (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories , 2014)
"A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals" (Lackington's , 2014)
"Ogres of East Africa" (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History , 2014)
"How 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 with the Green Girl" (Glitter & Mayhem , 2013)
"I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass" (We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology , 2013)
"Dawn and the Maiden" (Apex Magazine , 2013)
"Selkie Stories Are for Losers" (Strange Horizons , 2013)
"Honey Bear" (Clarkesworld Magazine , 2012)
"A Brief History of Nonduality Studies" (Expanded Horizons , 2012)
"The Nazir" (Ideomancer , 2012)
Monster Portraits (collection) (Rose Metal Press, 2017)
Tender (collection) (Small Beer Press, 2017)
The Practice, the Horizon, and 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 of 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 of Disasters" (Bull Spec , 2012)
"Girl Hours" (Stone Telling , 2011)
"The Sand Diviner" (Stone Telling , 2011)
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e "Sofia Samatar: Stranger Scripts" . Locus Magazine. 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2014 .
^ "Small Beer Press & Big Mouth House Fall/Winter 2012" (PDF) . Small Beer Press. Retrieved December 31, 2014 .[permanent dead link
^ Samatar, Said Sheikh. "Interview with Professor Said Sheikh Samatar at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C." (Interview). Interviewed by Ahmed I. Samatar. Bildhaan. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2014 .
^ "Faculty Profiles - Sofia Samatar" . California State University Channel Islands. Archived from the original on November 28, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014 .
^ "Sofia Samatar: Associate Professor" . www.jmu.edu . Retrieved 9 July 2024 .
^ a b Gallo, Irene (7 September 2014). "Announcing the 2014 British Fantasy Awards Winners" . Tor.com . Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved September 9, 2014 .
^ a b Samatar, Sofia. "ST Body Interviews: Sofia Samatar, "Long-Ear" (Interview). Stone Telling. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2014 .
^ Samatar, Sofia. "The Death of Araweilo" . Tor.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2014 . {{cite web }}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link )
^ " . The Stanford Daily . April 3, 2019. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "The 2014 Rhysling Anthology and Awards" . Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association . Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "2014 British Fantasy Awards Winners" . Locus Magazine . September 8, 2014. Archived from the original on February 11, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "2014 Locus Awards Winners" . Locus Magazine . June 28, 2014. Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "2013 Calvino Prize Winners — Department of English" . louisville.edu . Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "Announcing the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists" . 15 February 2023. Archived from the original on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023 .
^ "Contest Winners | the Society of Midland Authors" . Archived from the original on 2023-04-29. Retrieved 2023-05-12 .
^ "Bulletin fall-winter 2010-11" . Issu. 10 December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2014 .
^ Samatar, Sofia (December 18, 2014). "Interview: Sofia Samatar" . Post45 (Interview). Interviewed by Aaron Bady. Austin, Texas: Yale University. Archived from the original on December 27, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
^ "Tender : Small Beer Press" . 9 April 2019. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
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