Lauren Osborn is a writer, amateur entomologist, and graduate student in the PhD English Program at Oklahoma State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in behavioral psychology from The University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Queen’s University of Charlotte. Her fiction and non-fiction navigate themes of feminism, entomology, grief, horror, ecology, and the body. Her writing has been published/is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review Micro Series, The North American Review, The Adroit, Willow Springs, Carve, DIAGRAM, JMWW, Fourteen Hills, Lake Effect, The Laurel Review, and elsewhere. 

Lauren's research interests include science education through creative writing, entomology, and neurodiverse pedagogy. She lives and writes in Stillwater, Oklahoma with her collection of tarantulas and other exotic pets.