Jill Osier
Originally from northeast Iowa, Jill Osier has worked as a writer, laborer, and educator, much of the time in Iowa and Alaska. She holds a BA from Luther College and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship, the George Bennett Fellowship, a Rasmuson Foundation Artist Award, and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
