Louisiana Poets Laureate

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.^[2] 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.

Brenda Marie Osbey is a poet and essayist working in English and French, and the author of seven volumes. She is the recipient of the American Book Award for All Saints: New and Selected Poems in 1998, the Langston Hughes Award in 2014, and is the 2018 Emilia Galli Struppa Fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and others, and has been a resident fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, the Camargo Foundation at Cassis and Dora Maar House at Ménerbes, France.

Osbey is Poet Laureate Emerita of Louisiana, was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University (2011-2015), and Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Carter G. Woodson Institute at University of Virginia (2018).

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