Kathleen Ossip

Kathleen Ossip (she/her) is the author of the poetry books July (Sarabande Books, 2021), one of NPR's best books of 2021; The Do-Over (Sarabande, 2015), a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Cold War (Sarabande Books, 2011), a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011; and The Search Engine (American Poetry Review/Copper Canyon, 2002), winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. She has also published two chapbooks, Cinephrastics (HorseLess Press, 2006) and Little Poems (Verve Poetry Press, 2022). Her poems have appeared in publications that include The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, the New Statesman, The Believer, Poetry magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review. 

Ossip was born in Albany, New York. She teaches at Princeton University and at The New School and was a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute.