Discipline: Literature – poetry

Brenda Marie Osbey

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Providence, RI
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984
Brenda Marie Osbey is an American poet who graduated from Dillard University, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and from the University of Kentucky, with an M.A. She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Loyola University New Orleans, and at Dillard University. She was visiting writer-in-residence at Tulane University and scholar-in-residence at Southern University. She teaches at Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian, Essence, Southern Exposure, Southern Review, Epoch, The American Voice, and The American Poetry Review.

Studios

Garland

Brenda Marie Osbey worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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