Jena Osman

Jena Osman is an American poet and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Ph.D. She teaches at Temple University. Osman's work has appeared in "American Letters & Commentary", "Conjunctions", "Hambone", "Verse", and "XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics".
With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited "Chain". She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of "Hyphen" magazine.
In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of Charles Reznikoff.