Jacqueline Osherow (born 1956) is an American poet, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.
[1] Raised in Philadelphia, Jacqueline Osherow graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a PhD.
[3] Her specialty is love poetry and Biblical poetry[4] and she has been featured in Best American Poetry.
[5] Writing in a 1999 article for the Poetry Society of America, Osherow said, “If I write out of a specific poetic tradition, it is the Jewish poetic tradition, American poet though I am.”[6] Her work has appeared in The New Criterion,[7] The Jewish Daily Forward,[8] The Yale Review,[9] and many other journals and quarterlies.
Additionally, she has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and has twice been included in Best American Poetry.