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Readings and Poetry Workshops: Blue Flower Arts anya[at]blueflowerarts.com
Commissions, Permissions, and Contact: ladanosmanbooking[at]gmail.com
author photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Osman's first short film Sam Underground profiles Sam Diaz, a teenage busker who would become the 2020 American Idol. She’s the co-director/writer of Sun of the Soil, a short documentary on the complicated legacy of Malian emperor, Mansa Musa. Osman’s latest film work, The Ascendants, a music short documentary series is streaming now. She lives in New York.