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Nathan Xavier Osorio is a poet, scholar, and educator based at Texas Tech University. He earned his PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies and Visual Studies, and holds an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. His research and creative work intersect with themes of identity, migration, and cultural hybridity.
- PhD in Literature (UC Santa Cruz)
- MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation (Columbia University)
His debut poetry collection, Querida, won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the California Book Award. His chapbook The Last Town Before the Mojave received the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship.
His work has been recognized through fellowships from institutions like the University of California Press, UC Irvine, and the Poetry Foundation. He has presented at universities including Hollins University, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Baruch College, and his writing appears in publications such as BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Public Books.
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (2024)
- California Book Award Finalist (2024)
- Norma Faber First Book Award Finalist
- Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine (2024)
As an educator, he focuses on creative writing and literature, supported by grants from the Fine Arts Work Center and The Kenyon Review. His research engages with contemporary art spaces like the New Museum of Contemporary Art and explores interdisciplinary connections between poetry and visual studies.
