Hi, I’m Dr. Nathan Xavier Osorio.
I’m a poet, scholar, and educator.
I’m the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for my collection Querida. Selected by poet Shara McCallum, my debut collection was published by The University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series on September 10, 2024.
My chapbook, The Last Town Before the Mojave, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. My poetry, translations, and essays have been featured in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, Notre Dame Review, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere.
I recieved my MFA in Poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and my PhD in Literature and Creative and Critical Writing from University of California, Santa Cruz. I’m currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Typically nomadic, I’m currently based in LA.