Kathleen Ossip is an American poet and writer. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: ''The Do-Over'', which was a New York Times Editors' Choice;
''The Cold War'', which was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011;
and ''The Search Engine'', selected by
Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...
for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.
Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as ''The Washington Post'', ''The Best American Poetry'', ''The Best American Magazine Writing'', ''
The New York Review of Books'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Believer'', ''Poetry'', ''Paris Review'', ''Kenyon Review'', and many others.
Ossips's collection ''Do Over'' was published in 2015 to much critical acclaim, with reviews in ''The New York Times,''
''The Harvard Review,'' ''The Boston Review,'' ''Slate'' and other journals and publications.
Ossip teaches at
The New School, the 92nd Street Y, and the
Hudson Valley Writers Center
The Hudson Valley Writer Center is a non-profit literary arts organization in Philipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow, New York, Sleepy Hollow, NY. It was established on August 5, 1988, by Margo Taft Stever, a Sleepy Hollow poet, with the assistance of th ...
. She was born in Albany, NY and lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY, with her family.
Published works
*''July'' (
Sarabande Books, 2021)
*''The Do-Over'' (Sarabande Books, 2015)
*''The Cold War'' (Sarabande Books, 2011)
*''The Search Engine'' (American Poetry Review/
Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
Awards
*Radcliffe Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University, 2016–2017.
*''The Do-Over'', a New York Times Editors’ Choice, May 1, 2015.
*“Elegies” selected for The Best American Magazine Writing, 2014.
*Pushcart Prize for “Elegies,” 2015.
*Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2007.
*''The Search Engine'', American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.
Selected by Derek Walcott. 2002.
*"The Nature of Things” selected for
The Best American Poetry 2001. Editor, Robert Hass.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women poets
21st-century American women