Robert Alexander Frazier (born 1951 in Ayer, Massachusetts) is an American writer of speculative poetry and fiction, as well as an impressionist painter on Nantucket Island.
His mother, Barbara Brown Frazier, was an oil painter, educated by Emil Gruppe (1896–1978) and Dimitri Romanovsky (Russian/American, 1887–1971) for portraiture.
In the mid-1970s, he moved to Nantucket Island (his distant relatives were among the early settlers there[citation needed]), where an artists colony existed.
He married Karol Marie Lindquist, a maker of the Nantucket Lightship Basket, in 1978, and attended the Clarion Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1980 (and returned there as the assistant in 1981).
Frazier's work is taught to students as the major American SF poet; this is done (academic year 2005–2006) at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in the city of Kragujevac, Serbia.