Jena Osman

Jena Osman's books of poems include An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). Her book The Network was a 2009 winner of the National Poetry Series and will be published by Fence Books in fall 2010. Other publications include Jury (Meow Press), Amblyopia (Avenue B), and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press). Her work has appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry of 2002 (selected by Robert Creeley), as well as in literary journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions, Hambone, Verse, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. Her poems have been translated into French, Swedish, and Serbo-Croatian.

 Osman has received a 2006 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, as well as grants from the National 
Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Fund for Poetry. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule.

 With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited the award-winning and internationally recognized literary magazine Chain. The journal is currently on hiatus, while Osman and Spahr edit the ChainLinks Book series (see www.chainarts.org).

 Osman received an M.A. in poetry and playwriting from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

 Aside from teaching poetry workshops, Professor Osman teaches seminars on contemporary poetry and poetics.