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Somali-born poet and essayist Ladan Osman is the author of The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize, and the chapbook Ordinary Heaven, which appeared in the box-set Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). Her next collection, Exiles of Eden, a work of poetry, photos, and experimental text, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2019.
Ladan Osman has an abundance of talent, and she is one of kind. There is informed wisdom to her poetry, which, on top of being moving, inspires the reader with positive thinking. A wonderful collection. --Nuruddin Farah Praise for Ladan Osman In a world that too often plugs its ears to voices it thinks unworthy, Osman shows that it's actually more inappropriate to be decorous. --Chicago Tribune True visionary poets are very rare. Ladan Osman is one. What she sees is extraordinary, and needful. --Brigit Pegeen Kelly Osman is a worldly and acutely sensitive writer who knows how to reach right through the sequined veil of fashion and put her hand squarely on the reader's heart, with frank and candid expression, with unaffected wonder. --Ted Kooser Osman is a warrior poet, and she is dangerous because she is especially gifted and disciplined about her craft. --Kwame Dawes
