found: A stranger in Olondria, c2012:ECIP title page (Sofia Samatar) data view (b. 1971, Sofia Samatar is an American of Somali and Swiss German Mennonite background. She wrote A stranger in Olondria in Yambio, South Sudan, where she worked as an English teacher. She has worked in Egypt and is pursuing a PhD in African languages and literature at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.)
found: Nebula awards showcase 2015, 2015:table of contents (Sophia Samatar)
found: Wikipedia.org, accessed 11 December 2015:(Sofia Samatar (born 24 October 1971) is a Somali American educator, poet and writer. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University Channel Islands, and serves as a nonfiction and poetry editor for Interfictions: a journal of interstitial arts. In 2013, she published the award-winning fantasy novel A stranger in Olondria. Samatar was born in 1971 in a small town in northern Indiana, United States. For her post-secondary education, Samatar studied at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. She graduated from the institution in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In 1997, Samatar earned a Master's degree in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. She subsequently completed a Ph.D. in 2013 at the institution in the same field, with a specialization in contemporary Arabic literature. Samatar has received various awards and recognition for her fiction and poetry. Her short story "Selkie stories are for losers" was a finalist for both the 2014 Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Short Story, as well as the British Science Fiction Association Award and the World Fantasy Award)
found: Sofia Samatar. A Stranger in Olondria Small Beer Press, 2013 :online (Sofia Samatar)
found: Sofia Samatar. The Winged Histories Small Beer Press, 2016 :online (Sofia Samatar)
found: James Madison University Department of English website, viewed November 28, 2018online (Sofia Samatar)
