Jill Osier

Jill Osier is an American poet and 2019 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Biography and career Osier was born in Iowa. Osier received a BA from Luther College and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2018, series judge Carl Phillips selected Osier as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition; her collection The Solace Is Not the Lullaby was published in 2020. She received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 2017. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2007.

Chapbook-length poetry collections

Bedful of Nebraskas (sunnyoutside, 2012) Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White (Bull City Press, 2013) from (Bull City Press, 2018)