| LC control no. | n 2012034783 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3619.A4496 |
| Personal name heading | Samatar, Sofia |
| Variant(s) | Samatar, Sophia, 1971- |
| See also | Employer: James Madison University |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Egypt South Sudan |
| Located | Harrisonburg (Va.) |
| Birth date | 1971-11-24 |
| Place of birth | Indiana |
| Field of activity | English literature--Study and teaching (Higher) |
| Affiliation | Goshen College University of Wisconsin--Madison California State University, Channel Islands James Madison University. Department of English |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Poets Editors University and college faculty members |
| Found in | A stranger in Olondria, c2012: ECIP title page (Sofia Samatar) data view (b. 1971, Sofia Samatar is an American of Somali and Swiss German Mennonite background. She wrote A stranger in Olondria in Yambio, South Sudan, where she worked as an English teacher. She has worked in Egypt and is pursuing a PhD in African languages and literature at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.) Nebula awards showcase 2015, 2015: table of contents (Sophia Samatar) Wikipedia.org, accessed 11 December 2015: (Sofia Samatar (born 24 October 1971) is a Somali American educator, poet and writer. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University Channel Islands, and serves as a nonfiction and poetry editor for Interfictions: a journal of interstitial arts. In 2013, she published the award-winning fantasy novel A stranger in Olondria. Samatar was born in 1971 in a small town in northern Indiana, United States. For her post-secondary education, Samatar studied at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. She graduated from the institution in 1994 with a 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. She subsequently completed a Ph.D. in 2013 at the institution in the same field, with a specialization in contemporary Arabic literature. Samatar has received various awards and recognition for her fiction and poetry. Her 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) Sofia Samatar. A Stranger in Olondria Small Beer Press, 2013 : online (Sofia Samatar) Sofia Samatar. The Winged Histories Small Beer Press, 2016 : online (Sofia Samatar) Sofia Samatar. Charting the Constellation: Past and Present in Things Fall Apart. Research in African Literatures 42.2 60-71. 2011 : online (Sofia Samatar) <https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.2.60> James Madison University Department of English website, viewed November 28, 2018 online (Sofia Samatar) |
| Associated language | eng |
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