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.
Osier was invited to be a James [Merrill House] Fellow in 2020. She received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice fay [di castagnola award|Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award] in 2017. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2007.

Works

Full-length poetry collections