Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Santee Frazier on Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. There will be a reading, Q&A, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase on site. Email [email protected] with questions or access needs. A citizen 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 by the University of Arizona Press, which released his second collection, Aurum, in 2019. Frazier's honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, the Native Arts & Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and an Amant Studio & Research Residency Fellowship in Siena, Italy. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Colgate University.