Lauren E. Osborn currently lives and writes in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she serves as the 2025 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Her fiction and nonfiction can be read in The Los Angeles Review, The North American Review, The Adroit, Redivider, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She's a graduate of the MFA program at Queen's University of Charlotte and holds a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University.  Her favorite childhood stories are "The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle, "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, and the folk tales told in the dark to scare children away from the woods in Mississippi, where she was born and calls home. Her debut short story collection, 'Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl' won the 2024 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and is forthcoming in May, 2026.