Brenda Marie Osbey
Brenda Marie Osbey (born December 12, 1957, in New Orleans) is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Louisiana from 2005 to 2007.
Brenda Marie Osbey
- Name
- Brenda Marie Osbey
- Born
- 12 December 1957
- Birthplace
- New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- Dillard University Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 University of Kentucky (MA)
- Awards
- American Book Award (1998)
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- American Book Awards
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Brenda Marie Osbey • Born — 12 December 1957 • Birthplace — New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — Dillard University Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 University of Kentucky (MA) • Awards — American Book Award (1998)
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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.
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* * • James Gill, ed. 1987 2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press. * * *
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1957
Brenda Marie Osbey born at New Orleans.
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• 2004 Camargo 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
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- 1.Yolanda Williams Page. Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007. 978-0-313-33429-0.
- 2.Louisiana Poet Laureate. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
- 3.Louisiana. The Library of Congress.
- 4.The Camargo Foundation : Fellow Project Details. www.camargofoundation.org.
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