 Jena Osman
http://www.temple.edu/creativewriting/faculty/osman
josman@temple.edu
215-204-8539
Jena Osman is a poet and scholar who teaches poetry
workshops to graduate students in the Creative Writing Program,
poetry and playwriting workshops to undergraduates, and literature
classes in contemporary poetry. She is also the faculty advisor
for the undergraduate literary magazine,
Hyphen.
Osman’s books of poetry include Essay in Asterisks
(Roof, 2004), The Character (Beacon, 1999 and winner of the
1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize) and Amblyopia (Avenue B,
1993). Chapbooks include Jury (Meow Press,1996), Balance
(Leave Books, 1992), Underwater Dive: Version One (Paradigm
Press, 1990) and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press,
1989). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry of
2002 (selected by Robert Creeley), and many other anthologies
and literary magazines such as Conjunctions, XCP: Cross
Cultural Poetics, and Verse. Her poems have been
translated into French, Swedish, and Serbo-Croatian. With Juliana
Spahr, she is the editor of the award-winning and internationally
recognized literary magazine
Chain.
She received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2006, and has also received grants for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for 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. Osman received an M.A. in poetry and
playwriting from Brown University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in English
from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at
Buffalo in 1998.
For more information on Chain and for
samples of Osman’s poetry, please visit
http://astro.temple.edu/~josman.
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