Jamila Osman is a writer, educator, and community organizer. Her writing explores the tension between place, history, and identity. Her essays and poetry have previously appeared in Pacific Standard, Catapult, The Establishment, Boaat, Diagram, Teen Vogue, on Al Jazeera, and other places. She is a VONA/Voices of Our Nation and Winter Tangerine workshop alum. She is currently working on a memoir that is a personal and national history of grief: It chronicles her family's displacement from Somalia, the long-running civil war, and the death of her sister Ayan in 2014. It is a reflection on the madness of grief, the malleability of personal and historical memory, and the transformative power of love.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Jamila Osman
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
jamilaosman.com
Studios
Monday Music
Jamila Osman 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…