Clint Frakes is a poet, writer, teacher, and ceremonialist living in Sedona, AZ and the Verde Valley since 1992. His poetry, prose and narrative non-fiction has appeared in nearly 200 journals, magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and Argentina since 1987.

He was named one of the Best New Poets of 2008 by former American Poet Laureate, Mark Strand, and received the Josephine Darner Distinguished Poet Prize. Other awards include the James Vaughan Poetry Prize, The Pudding House Chapbook Prize and the Peggy Ferris Memorial Prize for Poetry.

He is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, where he studied with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. He received his MA at the Northern Arizona University creative writing program, and received his Phd with emphasis in creative writing from the University of Hawaii.

His Publication include: Myths, Beasts & the Ways of Water (Seven Worlds Press, 2025), The Aching Unrest of Spheres (Finishing Line, 2024), and Mystery not Always Unkind (Pudding House Press, 2008).

He is the former Chief Editor of The Hawaii Review, and the Founder of Seven Worlds Press.

Clint lives in Cornville, AZ with his sons, Quanah and Dawson.