About Ruth Osman

Described by Caribbean Beat Magazine as "a poet disguised as a songbird", Ruth Osman is a Guyanese singer, songwriter, flautist, and poet based in Trinidad and Tobago.

Her music, often performed and recorded in collaboration with other musicians/composers, has been described as "profound", "entrancing", and "authentic". Her sophomore album, Elemental, was dubbed "a 10-track gem" by the Trinidad Guardian.

Osman was a top-three finalist for the Brooklyn Caribbean Festival’s 2024 Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Bocas Lit Emerging Writers Fellowship. And 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. 

Her work has been published in Wildness, Mulberry Literary, Rising Phoenix, Showcase: Object & Idea, and The Paper Crow.

Osman, along with spoken word poet Gamma Ghost, co-founded Weaving Wor(l)ds, a community dedicated to educating, inspiring and connecting poets from the Caribbean and its diaspora.