Ladan Osman was born in Somalia and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned a BA from Otterbein University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. In 2014 her poetry collection The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimomy won the annual Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Osman lives in Chicago.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Water, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Four Poems, poetry, in Spring 2013
- Ordinary Heaven, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012