Jena Osman | |
Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Occupation: | Poet Editor |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Brown University University at Buffalo |
Genre: | Poetry |
Jena Osman is an American poet and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Ph.D. She teaches at Temple University.[1]
Osman's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions,[2] Hambone, Verse, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.
With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited Chain. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of Hyphen magazine.[3]
In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of Charles Reznikoff.[4]