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==Personal life==
Osman was born in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]],<ref name="Hlo">{{cite web|title=Ladan Osman|url=http://www.heardmagzine.com/2013/12/ladan-osman.html|publisher=Heard|accessdate=27 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307104507/http://www.heardmagzine.com/2013/12/ladan-osman.html|archive-date=7 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Pflo">{{cite web|title=Ladan Osman|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ladan-osman|publisher=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=27 February 2014}}</ref> and grew up in [[Columbus, Ohio]] in the [[United States]].<ref name="Nmlo">{{cite web|title=Ladan Osman|date=8 December 2011|url=http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/ladan-osman|publisher=Narrative Magazine|accessdate=27 February 2014}}</ref>
For her post-secondary education, Osman earned a BA from [[Otterbein University]]. She subsequently studied at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]'s [[Michener Center for Writers]], where she obtained an MFA.<ref name="Nmlo"/>
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Osman's poetry is shaped by her Somali and Islamic heritage. Fellow Somali author [[Nuruddin Farah]] serves as among her main artistic influences. She also cites verse by the Palestinian poet [[Mahmoud Darwish]], the Sudanese writer [[Tayeb Salih]], as well as the American poets [[Sherman Alexie]], [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] and [[Li-Young Lee]] as additional inspirations.<ref name="Hlo"/>
Her chapbook, ''Ordinary Heaven'', was released in March 2014.<ref name="Hlo"/> Her first full-length collection '' The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony'' was published in 2015 and was decorated with the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/ladan-osmans-collection-the-kitchen-dwellers-testimony-is-the-winner-of-the-2014-sillerman-first-book-prize-for-african-poets/|title = Ladan Osman winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. – African Poetry Book Fund}}</ref>
==Awards==
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