Jill Osier

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Jill Osier
Occupationpoet
Education Luther College (BA), University of Alaska Fairbanks (MFA)
Notable worksThe 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.

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Biography and career

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]

Works

Full-length poetry collections

Chapbook-length poetry collections

References

  1. 1 2 "The Solace Is Not the Lullaby". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  2. 1 2 "Jill Osier". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  3. "Yale Series of Younger Poets Winners". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  4. "Writer-in-Residence Testimonies". James Merrill House. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  5. Poets, Academy of American. "Jill Osier". poets.org. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  6. Osier, Jill (2020). The solace is not the lullaby. Yale series of younger poets. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-25034-3. OCLC   1114283711.
  7. 1 2 3 "Jill Osier". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2025-05-03.