Jacqueline Osherow
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Jacqueline Osherow (born 1956) is an American poet, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.[1]
Raised in Philadelphia, Jacqueline Osherow graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a PhD.[2] At Harvard, she was part of the Harvard Lampoon.[3] Her specialty is love poetry and Biblical poetry[4] and she has been featured in Best American Poetry.[5]
Writing in a 1999 article for the Poetry Society of America, Osherow said, “If I write out of a specific poetic tradition, it is the Jewish poetic tradition, American poet though I am.”[6] Her work has appeared in The New Criterion,[7] The Jewish Daily Forward,[8] The Yale Review,[9] and many other journals and quarterlies. Additionally, she has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and has twice been included in Best American Poetry.[10]
Awards
- 1990 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
- 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship
