Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of a Whiting Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. Her poems have been translated into over 10 languages. Osman's photographs and experimental media have been exhibited by Paris Photo, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Arts Incubator, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, and the New York African Film Festival. Her films include: The Ascendants, Sam Underground, The Fly Collectors, and Sun of the Soil. These films have played in numerous festivals and were awarded an ECU Award for Best Independent Documentary, and a Dikalo Award for Best Short Documentary, among other honors. She lives in New York.