Brenda Marie Osbey

Brenda Marie Osbey (born December 12, 1957 in New Orleans) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Dillard University, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and from the University of Kentucky, with an M.A. She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Loyola University New Orleans, and at Dillard University. She was Visiting Writer-in-residence at Tulane University and Scholar-in-residence at Southern University. She teaches at Louisiana State University.

Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian, Essence, Southern Exposure, Southern Review, Epoch, The American Voice, and The American Poetry Review.

Awards

• 2004 Carmargo Foundation Fellow
• 1998 American Book Award
• 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
• 1984 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Poetry Award
• 1980 Loring-Williams Prize, Academy of American Poets

Works

Anthologies

• James Gill, ed. 1987 2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Louisiana's Poet Laureate: What Was Lost", NPR