Jacqueline Osherow (born 1956) is an American

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, and Distinguished Professor at the

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Biography

Raised in

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, Jacqueline Osherow graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA ''magna cum laude'', and from

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with a PhD. At Harvard, she was part of the

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. Her specialty is love poetry and Biblical poetry and she has been featured in Best American Poetry. Writing in a 1999 article for the Poetry Society of America, Osherow said, “If I write out of a specific poetic tradition, it is the Jewish poetic tradition, American poet though I am.” Her work has appeared in ''The New Criterion'', ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', ''The Yale Review'', and many other journals and quarterlies. Additionally, she has been anthologized in ''Twentieth Century American Poetry'' (2003), ''The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry'' (2005), ''Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology'' (2000), and ''The Penguin Book of the Sonnet'' (2001), and has twice been included in ''Best American Poetry''.

Awards

*1990

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*1997 Guggenheim Fellowship *1999

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Fellowship *

Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrie ...

fellowship

Works

Poetry collections

*''Looking for Angels in New York'', University of Georgia Press, 1988, *''Conversations with Survivors'', University of Georgia Press, 1994, * * * * * *

Anthologies

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Non-fiction

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References

External links

"Q & A: American Poetry - Jacqueline Osherow"
''Poetry Society of America'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Osherow, Jacqueline 1956 births Formalist poets Radcliffe College alumni Princeton University alumni University of Utah faculty Living people Writers from Philadelphia American women poets National Endowment for the Arts Fellows American women academics 21st-century American women