Street View
Winner of the 2022 “Annie Dillard Award” in Nonfiction In 1995, Byron Kim, a Brooklyn based contemporary artist, attempted to paint his childhood home when he realized he could not recall its exact color. He…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Jamila Osman
Jamila Osman is a Somali writer, educator, and community organizer. She received the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and is the author of the chapbook A Girl is a Sovereign State (Akashic 2020). She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.
She lives in Portland, Oregon where she is working on a hybrid memoir on girlhood, grief, and belonging. This essay is an excerpt from that project.