DuEwa Frazier, MFA, EdD, a.k.a. NERD-IN-CHIEF, is an award-winning author, poet, writer, editor, professor, creative entrepreneur, keynote speaker, arts and education leader, and digital creator. DuEwa's non-fiction writing focuses on contemporary education issues in education, arts and culture, social justice, hip - hop culture, women's interest, and opinion. Her creative writing focuses on poetry, children's, and other genres. As an innovator, she has produced work in multiple areas in the arts, digital media, and publishing.

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DuEwa has been a featured poet and author for numerous arts organizations, libraries, school programs, festivals, conferences, reading series, and poetry venues. She is the author of several volumes of poetry and books for young readers including Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tracks on a Road, Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In, Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems, Deanne in the Middle, Quincy Rules, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, and Baby Ray's Old School vs. New School Hip-Hop Party.

 

The founding publisher of Lit Noire Publishing and Lit Noire Publishing Children, DuEwa has given consultation to writers and scholars seeking new pathways toward publishing. Her writing has been published in Arlington Literary Journal, Split this Rock, Drumvoices Revue, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Black Renaissance Noire, Black Arts Quarterly, X Magazine, Poetry Ink Anthology, Poetry in Performance, Black Imagination Vol. II, Tidal Basin Review, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, Signifyin' Literary Journal, Rocket Learning literacy readers and others.

 

DuEwa has given keynote addresses or facilitated training and professional development at conferences, schools, libraries, and arts venues. She is a TEDx speaker alum, her 2019 talk "Word is Bond" merged her love for hip-hop with education. DuEwa has presented and given talks at conferences including annual CLA, CEA, CCCC, NCTE, AWP, Black Caucus of ALA, and others. Her work with library programs has included facilitating workshops, poetry readings, or talks at Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, St. Louis Public Library, Kirkwood Library, and others. She has led professional development training for state level organizations and conferences. Her scholarship includes book chapters and edited volumes published by IGI Global and Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Her leadership experience is in the arts and education programs. 

 

DuEwa created the website FreshGoddess.com in 2013 to market beauty, entertainment, and cultural digital content for women and tastemakers in the media industry. As a former book publicist and news editorial writer, DuEwa merged her strong writing skills, as well as her savvy in social media marketing, and began to promote writing, books, poets, and podcasts. DuEwa has curated a number of digital offerings including one of the THE FIRST pandemic literary readings hosted online in 2020. Merging her love for writing, speaking, and connection with audiences she created a new digital podcast titled NERDACITY in 2020. At the time, there were few literary focused digital podcasts, especially started by a writer and TEDx speaker. Since 2020, DuEwa has been producing digital podcasts, NERDACITY and more recently That's Code, for a community of audiences who love cultural and entertainment-based content with commentary. Currently NERDACITY PODCAST hosted and produced by DuEwa, has listeners across the US and abroad in France, Germany, and other countries. DuEwa's digital podcasts are marketed, listened to, and watched across the web including such mainstream platforms as SPOTIFY, APPLE PODCASTS, iHeartRADIO, Amazon MUSIC, YOUTUBE and others. DuEwa's digital blog @MEDIUM is followed by over 500+ readers and features content related to news, entertainment, books, lifestyle, and education. Her new podcast AFROFUTURES POD features scholars and poets who work on themes and initiatives related to Afrofuturism in writing, arts, and community. DuEwa is also the founder of Black Scholars in Podcasting, bringing a network of podcasters together who promote books, arts, community programs, and education initiatives using podcasting as a means of collaboration and digital communications. 

 

DuEwa holds degrees in English (BA), Creative Writing (MFA), Educational Leadership with Initial School Principal Certification (EdM), Curriculum and Teaching (MS), and the Doctorate degree in Higher Education Leadership (EdD). She also holds a permanent New York State teaching license in English, and a standard Missouri State teaching license in Language Arts. DuEwa has received fellowships with NWSA Women of Color Leadership Project, Rutgers Universit Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Hurston Wright Writer's Foundation, and Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing.