Lauren Osborn
PhD Student, Creative Writing - Fiction
Office: 4th Floor Morrill Hall
Phone: (205) 305-7096
Email: Lauren.e.osborn@okstate.edu
Website: www.laureneosborn.com
M.F.A, Queen’s University of Charlotte, Creative Writing, Fiction, 2019
B.S., University of Alabama at Birmingham, Behavioral Psychology, 2016
Areas of Interest
Fiction
Flash Fiction
Non-fiction
Entomology
STEAM Pedagogy
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 2513: Intro to Creative Writing
ENGL 1113: Composition I
ENGL 1213: Composition II
ENTO 5730: Insects and Society Honor's Section
Selected Publications
Fiction
“Exodus,” The Adroit, 2023
“Hymenoptera,” Fourteens Hills, 2023
“Mantodea,” Fourteen Hills, 2023
“Silk,” (Forthcoming), DIAGRAM
“Eaters of Men,” (Forthcoming), DIAGRAM
“Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl, (Forthcoming), DIAGRAM
“The Zipper, JMWW, 2022
“Gossamer Girl,” Willow Springs, 2022
“Ortolan,” The Cincinnati Review Micro-Series, 2021
“Boil Me Alive,” Laurel Review, 2021
Non-fiction
“Hole”, Elements of Creative Writing, (University of Northern Iowa OER Textbook), 2023
“Bestiary of Birds I’ve Buried,” Carve, 2023
“Hole,” The North American Review, 2022
“Sunburn,” Lake Effect, 2021
Film-Options
“Boy,” Lost Mountain Media, 2021
Academic
Osborn, L., Hoback, W., Parkison, A., & Golick, D. (2023). Science Education through Creative Writing: A Case Study Using Entomology. NACTA Journal, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.56103/nactaj.v67i1.81
Selected Conference Presentations
Presenter, “The Etymology of Entomology: Science Education Through Creative Writing,” presentation on innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy, Entomological Society of America (ESGA) joint north & southwest meeting, Oklahoma City, OK. (April 18, 2022)
Presenter, “Entomology Education Through Creative Writing,” facilitated discussion/workshop, Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Arlington, VA. (November 4, 2022)
Presenter, “Science Education Through Creative Writing”, presentation on innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) 68th Annual Conference, Wooster, OH. (June, 2022)
Presenter, “Multimodality as a Gateway to Accessibility for Neurodiverse Students”, Panel on teaching diverse student populations, Red River Graduate Student Conference, North Dakota State University. (April, 2021)
Professional Appointments or Professional Service
Frontier Mosaic, Oklahoma State University’s Undergraduate Literature Journal, Co-Advisor/EIC, (2023-2024)
Quarterly West, Prose Editorial Assistant (2022-2023)
Quarterly West, Screener for QW 2023 Chapbook Contest (2023)
Quarterly West, Screener for QW 2022 Prose Contest (2022)
F2C, Screener for the Sukenick & Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prizes (2021-2023)
Cimarron Review, Oklahoma State University, Editorial Assistant, Fiction (2020-2023)
Awards and Recognition
Marye Lynn Cummings Endowed Scholarship, First Place, Fiction – “Silk” (2023)
Blue Frog’s Flash Fiction Contest Finalist, Judged by Aimee Bender – “Trendsetters” (2023)
CutBank’s Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Fiction Contest Finalist – “Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl” (2023)
Gloria Goldstein Howton Scholarship for Creative Writing (2016)