Rosebud Ben-Oni

Born to a Mexican mother and a Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which was also a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is the author of turn around, BRXGHT, XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and the chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets, which appears online in Black Warrior Review (2020).

In May 2022, Paramount commissioned Ben-Oni's video essay “My Judaism is a Wild Unplace" for a Jewish Heritage Month campaign that appeared on Paramount Network, MTV Networks, The Smithsonian Channel, VH1, and many other outlets. She is a recipient of a 2021 City Arts Corps grant, a 2021 Queens Arts Fund grant from the Queens Council for the Arts, a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry, and was a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. Her work appears in Poetry magazine, the American Poetry Review, and many other journals. She’s part of the QUEENSBOUND project, and took part in The Onassis Foundation’s ENTER exhibition. From 2015-2020, she wrote weekly for the Kenyon Review blog.

Ben-Oni earned a BA at New York University, where she was a Leopold Schepp Scholar, and an MFA at the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow. She completed postgraduate studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was a Horace Goldsmith Scholar.