Jill Osier gres up in Iowa and resides in northern Vermont; she is the writing program coordinator at the Vermont Studio Center.

About New Letters:
Poets in this issue: Noel Smith, Linda Pastan, Marilyn Kallet, David Wagoner, Abe Louise Young, Brent Dozier, Amy McCann, Jill Osier, Aliki Barnstone, David Clewell, Sonia Gernes, Linda Ramey, Allison Funk, Thomas Zvi Wilson, Anthony Butts, Emmanuel Moses/Marilyn Hacker, Walt McDonald, Charles Harper Webb, Mark Irwin, Jim Daniels, Tim Seibles, Maura Stanton, Anna Boothe, James Ragan, Pia Tafdrup, Jeanie Wilson, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Robert Funge