Brenda Marie Osbey (born December 12, 1957 in
) is an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
. She served as the Poet Laureate of Louisiana from 2005 to 2007.
Life
She graduated from
Dillard University
Dillard University is a private, historically black university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1930 and incorporating earlier institutions founded as early as 1869 after the American Civil War, it is affiliated with the United Church of C ...
,
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and from the
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state ...
, with an M.A.
She has taught at the
University of California at Los Angeles,
Loyola University New Orleans, and at
Dillard University
Dillard University is a private, historically black university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1930 and incorporating earlier institutions founded as early as 1869 after the American Civil War, it is affiliated with the United Church of C ...
. She was Visiting Writer-in-residence at
Tulane University
Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...
and Scholar-in-residence at
Southern University. She teaches at
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...
.
Her work has appeared in ''Callaloo'', ''Obsidian'', ''Essence'', ''Southern Exposure'', ''Southern Review'', ''Epoch'', ''The American Voice'', and ''The American Poetry Review''.
Awards
* 2004 Carmargo Foundation Fellow
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* 1998
American Book Award
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...
* 1990
National Endowment for the Arts
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Creative Writing Fellowship
* 1984
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Poetry Award
* 1980 Loring-Williams Prize,
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...
Works
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Anthologies
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* James Gill, ed. 1987 ''2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing'', Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press.
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References
External links
"Author's website""Louisiana's Poet Laureate: What Was Lost", ''NPR''*
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Writers from New Orleans
1957 births
Dillard University alumni
University of Kentucky alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Loyola University New Orleans faculty
Dillard University faculty
Tulane University faculty
Southern University faculty
Louisiana State University faculty
Living people
American women poets
American Book Award winners
Kentucky women writers
American women academics
21st-century American women