Brenda Marie Osbey is a poet and essayist working in English and French, and the author of six volumes. She is the recipient of the American Book Award for All Saints: New and Selected Poems in 1998, and the Langston Hughes Award in 2014.She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and others, and has been a resident fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, the Camargo Foundation at Cassis and Dora Maar House at Ménerbes, France.Osbey is Poet Laureate Emerita of Louisiana, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.