About Ruth Osman

Ruth Osman, a Guyanese singer, songwriter, and flautist, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is a “poet disguised as a songbird”, according to Caribbean Beat Magazine.

She has been writing music and poetry since childhood, drawing from her lived experience as a Caribbean woman of mixed heritage, and from the rich worlds she encountered in books and her father's favourite musicals.

Her music has been described as ‘profound’, ‘entrancing', and ‘authentic’. And her sophomore album, Elemental, was dubbed 'a 10-track gem' by the Trinidad Guardian.

Osman was shortlisted for the Bocas Lit Emerging Writers Fellowship 2022. And her poem, "Lost and Found" received an Honorable Mention in the 52nd New Millennium Writing Awards.

Her debut poetry collection, All Made of Longing, won Best First Book of Poetry and placed second in the Best Book of Poetry category of the Guyana Prize for Literature 2023.