Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jacqueline Osherow

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Salt Lake City, UT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
More: faculty.utah.edu/u0028664-JACQUELINE_OSHEROW/biography/index.hml
Jacqueline Osherow is an American poet, and distinguished professor at University of Utah. She was raised in Philadelphia. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a B.A. magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. At Harvard, she was part of the Harvard Lampoon. Her work appeared in The Jewish Daily Forward and The Yale Review. She has won many awards including; 1990 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize, 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship. Osherow’s work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry.

Studios

Monday Music

Jacqueline Osherow worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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