Rosebud Ben-Oni

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections, including the forthcoming The Last Great Adventure is You (Alice James Books, 2027), a sequel to If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the Smithsonian Channel, MTV, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. She has received grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, Cafe Royal Foundation, Queens Council for the Arts, and CantoMundo. (updated 11/2025)

Read Ben-Oni’s essay “Halo Darkness, My Old Friend,” which introduces AGNI Online‘s The X-Ray at 130.