A member 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 collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was published in the Sun Tracks series of the University of Arizona Press.

Frazier’s honors include a Fall 2009 Lannan Residency Fellowship and 2011 School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer in Residence, and was the 2014 Native Arts and Culture Foundation literature fellow.

His second collection of poems Aurum will be released in the Fall of 2019 by The University of Arizona Press.