Dr. Yahya Frederickson
Yahya Frederickson received a B.A. in the Individual and Society (an individualized social sciences- and humanities-based major) from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1985, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Montana in 1989, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Dakota in 1999. Dr. Frederickson spent much of the decade between graduate degrees in Sana’a, Yemen, where he taught English as a Foreign Language, composition, and poetry.His areas of specialization include poetry, Middle Eastern literature, cross-cultural contact literature, and Henry David Thoreau. His doctoral dissertation is a collection of poems inspired by his experiences in Yemen. A lover of international travel, he has visited Canada, Ethiopia, Greece, Mexico, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, in addition to Yemen. Dr. Frederickson’s poems and book reviews have been published in national literary journals.