Lauren E. Osborn lives and writes in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She shares her home with a family of creatures, including several species of spiders and the bats who live in her apartment's attic. 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 a Ph.D candidate in English at 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 Spring, 2026.