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href="/wiki/Mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>A Stranger in Olondria</i> (2013), <i>The White Mosque</i> (2022)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell_Award_for_Best_New_Writer" class="mw-redirect" title="John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer">John W. Campbell Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crawford_Award" title="Crawford Award">Crawford Award</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Keith Miller</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Said_Sheikh_Samatar" title="Said Sheikh Samatar">Said Sheikh Samatar</a> (father)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sofiasamatar.com">sofiasamatar<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sofia Samatar</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> scholar, novelist and educator from <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is an associate professor of English at <a href="/wiki/James_Madison_University" title="James Madison University">James Madison University</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samatar was born in northern <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lmssss_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lmssss-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her father was the <a href="/wiki/Somali_people" title="Somali people">Somali</a> scholar, historian and writer <a href="/wiki/Said_Sheikh_Samatar" title="Said Sheikh Samatar">Said Sheikh Samatar</a>. Her mother is a <a href="/wiki/Swiss_people" title="Swiss people">Swiss</a>-<a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonite</a> from <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lmssss_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lmssss-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sbpabmh_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sbpabmh-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sofia's parents met in 1970 in <a href="/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, while her mother was teaching English.<sup id="cite_ref-Iwpsss_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iwpsss-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar attended a Mennonite high school before studying at <a href="/wiki/Goshen_College" title="Goshen College">Goshen College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Goshen,_Indiana" title="Goshen, Indiana">Goshen, Indiana</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Lmssss_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lmssss-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where she graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in English. In 1997, Samatar earned a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> in African languages and literature from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> in <a href="/wiki/Madison,_Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin">Madison, Wisconsin</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Ph.D." class="mw-redirect" title="Ph.D.">Ph.D.</a> in 2013 in contemporary <a href="/wiki/Arabic_literature" title="Arabic literature">Arabic literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Fpss_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fpss-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samatar is an associate professor of English at <a href="/wiki/James_Madison_University" title="James Madison University">James Madison University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar's first novel <i>A Stranger in Olondria</i><sup id="cite_ref-Lmssss_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lmssss-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was published in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-tor.com_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tor.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar has also published <a href="/wiki/Qasida" title="Qasida">qasīdas</a> in English and collaborated with her brother on a book of illustrated prose poems, entitled <i>Monster Portraits</i>, which was published in 2018 by Rose Metal Press. A sequel to <i>A Stranger in Olondria</i>, entitled <i>The Winged Histories,</i> was published by Small Beer Press in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Sbiss_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sbiss-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar's main literary influences include <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Somali_mythology" title="Somali mythology">Somali mythology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sbiss_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sbiss-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tdoa_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tdoa-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Samatar served as a nonfiction and poetry editor for <i>Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts</i>. </p><p>In 2022, she published her first nonfiction book, <i>The White Mosque</i>, a memoir about a trip to <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> in search of the followers of fringe religious leader <a href="/wiki/Claas_Epp_Jr." title="Claas Epp Jr.">Claas Epp Jr.</a><sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samatar's short story "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" was a finalist for both the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Short_Story" title="Nebula Award for Best Short Story">Nebula</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Short_Story" title="Hugo Award for Best Short Story">Hugo Awards</a> for Best Short Story, as well as the <a href="/wiki/British_Science_Fiction_Association" title="British Science Fiction Association">British Science Fiction Association Award</a> and the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar's poem "APACHE CHIEF" was a finalist for a <a href="/wiki/Rhysling_Award" title="Rhysling Award">Rhysling Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Samatar won the <a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy Award</a> for Best Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award) for her book <i>A Stranger in Olondria</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also presented the World Fantasy Award for the work.<sup id="cite_ref-tor.com_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tor.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Samatar received the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Astounding_Award_for_Best_New_Writer" title="Astounding Award for Best New Writer"><i>Astounding</i> Award for Best New Writer</a>. She likewise won the <a href="/wiki/Crawford_Award" title="Crawford Award">Crawford Award</a> and was a finalist for the <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_First_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best First Novel">Locus Award for Best First Novel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samatar's <i>Monster Portraits,</i> a collection of short fiction published in February 2018, was a finalist for the Calvino Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The White Mosque</i> was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It won the 2023 Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal">Personal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samatar is married to American writer Keith R. Miller.<sup id="cite_ref-Lmssss_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lmssss-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-Ibfwte_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ibfwte-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although her father was a <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a>, she is a Mennonite<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> like her mother. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_bibliography">Selected bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Selected bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Novels</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>A Stranger in Olondria</i> (Small Beer Press, 2013)</li> <li><i>The Winged Histories</i> (Small Beer Press, 2016)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Nonfiction</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>The White Mosque</i> (Catapult, 2022)</li> <li><i>Tone</i> (with <a href="/wiki/Kate_Zambreno" title="Kate Zambreno">Kate Zambreno</a>. Columbia University Press, 2023)</li> <li><i>Opacities</i> (Soft Skull Press, 2024)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Collection</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Tender</i> (Small Beer Press, 2017)<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Short fiction</dt></dl> <ul><li>"Meet Me in Iram" (Guillotine Series No. 10, 2015)</li> <li>"The Closest Thing to Animals" (<i>Fireside Fiction</i>, 2015<i>)</i></li> <li>"Tender" (<i>OmniVerse</i>, 2015)</li> <li>"Request for an Extension on the <i>Clarity</i>" (<i>Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet</i>, 2015)</li> <li>"Those" (<i>Uncanny Magazine</i>, 2015)</li> <li>"Walkdog" (<i>Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals" (<i>Lackington's</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"Ogres of East Africa" (<i>Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"How to Get Back to the Forest" (<i>Lightspeed</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"Olimpia's Ghost" (<i>Phantom Drift</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"How I Met the Ghoul" (<i>Eleven Eleven</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Bess, the Landlord's Daughter, Goes for Drinks with the Green Girl" (<i>Glitter & Mayhem</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass" (<i>We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Dawn and the Maiden" (<i>Apex Magazine</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Selkie Stories Are for Losers" (<i>Strange Horizons</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Honey Bear" (<i>Clarkesworld Magazine</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"A Brief History of Nonduality Studies" (<i>Expanded Horizons</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"The Nazir" (<i>Ideomancer</i>, 2012)</li> <li><i>Monster Portraits</i> (collection) (Rose Metal Press, 2017)</li> <li><i>Tender</i> (collection) (Small Beer Press, 2017)</li> <li><i>The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain</i> (novella) (Tor, 2024)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Poetry</dt></dl> <ul><li>"Make the Night Go Faster" (<i>Liminality</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"The Death of Araweilo" (<i>Tor.com</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"Long-Ear" (<i>Stone Telling</i>, 2014)</li> <li>"APACHE CHIEF" (<i>Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Persephone Set Free" (<i>Mythic Delirium</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Undoomed" (<i>Ideomancer</i>, 2013)</li> <li>"Shahrazad Spoils the Coffee" (<i>Jabberwocky</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"Snowbound in Hamadan" (<i>Stone Telling</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"Burnt Lyric" (<i>Goblin Fruit</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"The Hunchback's Mother" (<i>inkscrawl</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"Lost Letter" (<i>Strange Horizons</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"Qasida of the Ferryman" (<i>Goblin Fruit</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"The Year of Disasters" (<i>Bull Spec</i>, 2012)</li> <li>"Girl Hours" (<i>Stone Telling</i>, 2011)</li> <li>"The Sand Diviner" (<i>Stone Telling</i>, 2011)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sofia_Samatar&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Morrow</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prestige" title="The Prestige">The Prestige</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(novelist)" title="Christopher Priest (novelist)">Christopher Priest</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Godmother_Night&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Godmother Night (page does not exist)">Godmother Night</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Pollack" title="Rachel Pollack">Rachel Pollack</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Physiognomy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Physiognomy (page does not exist)">The Physiognomy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Louise_Erdrich" title="Louise Erdrich">The Antelope Wife</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louise_Erdrich" title="Louise Erdrich">Louise Erdrich</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Thraxas" title="Thraxas">Thraxas</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Millar" title="Martin Millar">Martin Scott</a> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Declare" title="Declare">Declare</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Powers" title="Tim Powers">Tim Powers</a> / <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galveston_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Galveston (novel) (page does not exist)">Galveston</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sean_Stewart" title="Sean Stewart">Sean Stewart</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Wind" title="The Other Wind">The Other Wind</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Facts_of_Life_(Joyce_novel)" title="The Facts of Life (Joyce novel)">The Facts of Life</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Graham_Joyce" title="Graham Joyce">Graham Joyce</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Ombria_in_Shadow" title="Ombria in Shadow">Ombria in Shadow</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip" title="Patricia A. McKillip">Patricia A. 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