Brenda Marie Osbey
Introduction '''Brenda Marie Osbey''' (born December 12, 1957, in New Orleans) is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Louisiana from 2005 to 2007.
Life She 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''.
Awards * 2004 Carmargo Foundation Fellow * 1998 American Book Award* 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship* 1984 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Poetry Award* 1980 Loring-Williams Prize, Academy of American Poets
Works * * * * ===Anthologies===* * * James Gill, ed. 1987 ''2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing'', Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press. * **
References
External links *  "Author's website"*  "Louisiana's Poet Laureate: What Was Lost", ''NPR''* * *