Frazier won a 2022 NPF Poverty Award.

Mya Frazier is an investigative and narrative journalist based in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green, Guardian Long Read, NewYorker.com, Harper’s, Outside, Columbia Journalism Review and Columbus Monthly, among many other publications. She is a former staff writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and American City Business Journals, and most recently a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan. She is currently a reporting fellow at The Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri, a non-profit journalism institute that produces books and in-depth reporting, while also acting as a teaching lab to train the next generation of reporters.