Mya Frazier is a journalist based in Ohio. Her work focuses on the power of the U.S. financial system in the lives of America’s poor. She is writing a book for Knopf about the role of the credit reporting system in America’s inequality crisis. She is a fellow at the Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, NewYorker.com, Bloomberg Green, Guardian Long Read, Harper’s, The New Republic, Outside, Columbia Journalism Review, and Columbus Monthly. She is a former staff writer for Advertising Age, The Plain Dealer, and The Cincinnati Business Courier.
She received the 2022 National Press Foundation’s Poverty and Inequality Award. She has received journalism fellowships from Knight-Wallace at the University of Michigan, the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY, and the 11th Hour Food and Farming Program established by Michael Pollan at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022, she was named a fellow at The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at the Columbia Journalism School. She is represented by Chris Parris-Lamb at the Gernert Company.
Follow her on Twitter @myafrazier