Jill Osier | |
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Occupation | poet |
Education | Luther College (BA), University of Alaska Fairbanks (MFA) |
Notable works | The Solace Is Not the Lullaby (2020) |
Notable awards | Yale Younger Poets Prize (2019) |
Jill Osier is an American poet and 2019 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
Osier was born in Iowa. [1] Osier received a BA from Luther College and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. [2] In 2018, series judge Carl Phillips selected Osier as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition; [3] her collection The Solace Is Not the Lullaby was published in 2020. [1]
Osier was invited to be a James Merrill House Fellow in 2020. [4] She received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 2017. [5] She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2007. [2]