Leah Poole Osowski
American poet
Leah Poole Osowski is an American essayist and poet. Her first full-length poetry collection, hover over her, won the Wick Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Exceeds Us, won the Alma Book Award. Osowski's work has earned her fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Image’s Glen Workshop. Her poetry has been a finalist for awards including the National Poetry Series. In 2018, she was named the Penn State Altoona Emerging Writer-in-Residence.
Biography
Osowski pursued her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she studied under poets Malena Mörling, Sarah Messer, and Michael White. Her graduate thesis later became her debut collection, hover over her, which was chosen by Adrian Matejka for the Wick Poetry Prize.
Osowski's essays and poetry have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, The Gettysburg Review, and The Cincinnati Review, among many others. She has been interviewed by The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review and others.
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