Jamila Osman is a Somali writer, multimedia artist, and educator. She has taught creative writing from Portland to Palestine, from summer camps to juvenile detention facilities, and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She is the recipient of the 2022 Annie Dillard Award for creative nonfiction from The Bellingham Review, the 2021 Flash Nonfiction Award from Black Warrior Review, and the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry prize. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Djerassi, Caldera, Nawat Fes, and MacDowell. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She is the author of the chapbook A Girl is a Sovereign State (Akashic 2020).