Rosebud Ben-Oni


Rosebud Ben-oni is a Latina-Jewish American poet and writer.
She is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021. Her second collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was published by in Fall 2019, and won the Bisexual Poetry Award at the 8th Annual Bisexual Book Awards from the Bi Writers Association. The Chicago Review of Books called turn around, BRXGHT XYXS "a book-length love poem to the self that would make Whitman both proud and blush. Ben-Oni’s poems are ecstatically and unabashedly feminist, queer, punk, Latinx, and Jewish, making hers a unique and vital voice for our times.” Jewish Currents states that "the propulsion and scope of Ben-Oni's poems— engaging everything from biblical figures to '80s music— give each word an exhilarating amount of power... turn around, BRXGHT XYXS audaciously owns its otherness, traveling the world—and the universe—without losing sight of the United States we now inhabit." .
Ben-Oni was awarded poetry fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts in 2014 and CantoMundo in 2013.

Life

Ben-Oni graduated from New York University.
She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She is a former Editorial Advisor for. In 2017, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commissioned her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark." She writes weekly for the blog of The Kenyon Review. She currently lives in New York City, teaches online poetry workshops for the University of California, Los Angeles and has also taught at Poets House.

Selected work

Books