Ladan Osman, a 2021 Whiting Award winner, was born in Somalia and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers and is the author of the poetry collections The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and Exiles of Eden, which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She lives in New York.
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