Jacqueline Osherow

Video recordings of Jacqueline Osherow at the 2009 UND Writers Conference.

Poet Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books, Looking for Angels in New York, Conversations with Survivors, With a Moon in Transit, Dead Men’s Praise, and most recently The Hoopoe’s Crown.  She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America.  Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Twentieth Century American Poetry, The Making of a Poem:  A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Inventions of Farewell:  A Book of Elegies,  The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, and Best American Poetry  (1995 and 1998).   She is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.