Faculty Presentation: Seema Reza, Santi Frazier, and Janine Wong
Monday, July 13, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writers Seema Reza and Santee Frazier, and artist Janine Wong.
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About Our Speakers
Seema Reza isa writer and performer and the author of two books: When the World Breaks Open and A Constellation of Half-Lives. Her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The LA Review, and LitHub among others.
Santee Frazier, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, 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 in the University of Arizona Press Sun Tracks series. Frazier’s honors include a Fall 2009 Lannan Residency Fellowship, 2011 School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer in Residence, the 2014 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Siena Residency Fellowship. His second collection of poems, Aurum, was released in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press.
Janine Wong is an artist and educator specializing in color, printmaking, and book arts. Wong received an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Art and a BArch from School of Art, Architecture and Planning, Cornell University. Her work is featured in collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, and the Yale Art Gallery, Brown University, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design. A recipient of a Regional NEA award for works on paper, Wong also served as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally, highlighting her contributions to both book arts and prints.
