DuEwa Frazier

Books and Honors

In April 2002, Frazier founded Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization. She is the author of the following published volumes of poetry: Shedding Light From My Journeys (2002) and Stardust Tracks on a Road (2005). In May 2010 she released her first children's book, Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In: Poems for Children. DuEwa Frazier is the editor and publisher of the award-nominated anthology, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees (Lit Noire Publishing, 2006). Check the Rhyme Anthology was nominated for both the 2007 NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry and the 2007 AALAS Book Awards in New York. In March 2010, Frazier's anthology, Check the Rhyme, received an Honorable Mention for the 17th Annual Writer's Digest International Self Publishing Awards.

Education and Arts Credits

Frazier's recent credits include an appearance on WE Television's "Cinematherapy" hosted by comedian Chuck Nice and several independent films. Frazier wrote and performed the one-woman poetic show “Flash Femininity” which featured commentary on women and AIDS, hip hop and women’s self esteem. She performed “Flash Femininity” in 2003 at Sister’s Uptown Bookstore and The Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Frazier later featured in the poetry arts documentary “Rhyme and Reason” featuring notable slam poets, Taylor Mali, Mayda Del Valle and artist, HBO Def Poetry Jam producer, Danny Simmons. Frazier featured in the play “Ice Floes” and received an Audience Favorite award for Favorite Actress in the Looking Glass Winter Forum. Frazier was a member of the Harlem based-playwrights and actors group, River View Players. Frazier has performed her spoken word poetry with hip hop, jazz and funk bands at The Shrine NYC, Solomon's Porch, The Nuyorican, Five Spot and other venues.

As an educator, Frazier has taught Adult Basic Education, English and Theater Arts. More recently, Frazier designed poetry and writing curriculum to introduce Check the Rhyme Anthology to elementary and secondary school students. She has taught both middle school and high school students for New York City Public Schools and non-profit organizations. She began teaching in St. Louis, Missouri after college graduation. While in graduate school at Fordham University, Frazier taught writing as a Writer-In-Residence for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Hampton University, and the Master of Science degree in Curriculum & Teaching (Literacy) from Fordham University in 2006. Frazier is an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing Candidate at The New School in New York City.

Speaking and Other Published Works

DuEwa has been a featured speaker, author and poet at many venues including: NCTE CCCC Convention, Temple University, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Westhill High School (CT), the Harlem Book Fair, University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writer’s House, the Literary Freedom Project, CUNY Poetry Festival, Indianapolis Book Festival and many others. Her poems, freelance essays and editorials have featured in Essence Magazine, Kweli Journal, Reverie Journal, PW Review, Poetry Ink Anthology, X Magazine, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Poetry In Performance #37, Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University), AALBC, Lyrical Times, Allhiphop.com, DaveyD.com, Mosaic, No More Silent Cries and others. DuEwa Frazier has been profiled or interviewed in The St. Louis American Newspaper, The St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Rolling Out Urbanstyle Weekly, Booking Matters Magazine, About a Book Mondays, Femmixx.com and others. She resides in New York.^[1]

References

1. ^ "DuEwa M. Frazier". Aalbc.com. 2006-07-21. http://aalbc.com/authors/duewamfrazier.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 

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