Buchanan, Oni, 1975-

Oni Buchanan (born 1975) is an American poet, and pianist. Her poetry collections include Spring (University of Illinois Press, 2008), a 2007 National Poetry Series winner, as well as Must a Violence (2012) and Time Being (2020), both published by the University of Iowa Press. Her first book, What Animal, came out with the University of Georgia Press in 2003. Her discography includes three solo piano CDs on the independent Velvet Ear Records label. Her concert programming is often interdisciplinary in nature. She has performed solo recitals throughout the United States and abroad. She graduated from the University of Virginia, from the New England Conservatory of Music, with a Master's degree in piano performance, and from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop an M.F.A. in poetry. Her teachers included Russell Sherman, Stephen Drury, Daniel Mark Epstein, Patricia Zander, Uriel Tsachor, and Mimi Tung.