Yahya Frederickson

Poet

Moorhead, MN
Minnesota US
Email: 
yafreder@mnstate.edu
Website: 
yafreder.wordpress.com/

Author's Bio

Yahya Frederickson is a poet and professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar in Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, as well as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Yemen. He holds a PhD from the University of North Dakota, an MFA from the University of Montana, and a BA from Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Education: 
University of Montana, Missoula MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Anderson Center Artist Residency Program
Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press, 2021)
,
Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear (Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, 2017)
Books:
In a Homeland Not Far: New & Selected Poems (Press 53, 2017)
,
The Gold Shop of Ba-'Ali (Lost Horse Press, 2014)
Chapbooks:
The Birds of al-Merjeh Square: Poems from Syria (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
,
Month of Honey, Month of Missiles (Tigertail Productions, 2009)
,
Returning to Water (Dacotah Territory Press, 2006)
,
Trilogy (Dacotah Territory Press, 1986)
Journals:
Arts & Letters
,
Black Warrior Review
,
Clackamas Literary Review
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
Cream City Review
,
Cutbank
,
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
,
Flyway
,
Great River Review
,
Green Mountains Review
,
Greenfield Review
,
Hanging Loose
,
Laurel Review
,
Luna
,
Michigan Quarterly Review
,
Midwestern Gothic
,
Mizna
,
Ninth Letter
,
North Dakota Quarterly
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Quarter After Eight
,
Quarterly West
,
RHINO
,
River Styx
,
South Dakota Review
,
Southern Review
,
WLA: War, Literature and the Arts
,
Water~Stone Review
,
Witness
Prizes won: 
  • 2013 Idaho Prize, Lost Horse Press, for The Gold Shop of Ba-'Ali. Judge: Sam Hamill.
  • 2013 Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry for The Birds of al-Merjeh Square: Poems from Syria. Judge: Christopher Bursk.
  • 2013 Lake Region Arts Council / McKnight Foundation Fellowship Literary/Performance grant.
  • 2002 Quarter After Eight Prize in Prose. Judge: Maureen Seaton.
  • 1998, 1997 Academy of American Poets Thomas McGrath Memorial Award.

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Muslim
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Nashville, TN
Tennessee
Raised in: 
Moorhead, MN
Minnesota
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Last update: Jul 13, 2023