Karen Lee Osborne Mailing Address: 600 S. Harvey Avenue Oak Park, IL 60304 County: Cook E-mail: kosborne@colum.edu Phone numbers: 312-344-8123 office 708-386-6212 home Genre: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry

Periodical Publications:

• Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
• Secrets, 1916,; fiction, Blithe House Quarterly 8:3 (summer 2004)
• Ruth from Linden, poem, Columbia Poetry Review 17 (2004)
• Spectacles, fiction, North American Review, May-Aug. 2003
• River's Edge, fiction, North American Review, Sept.-Oct. 2000
• Chest Pains, poem, in My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems, edited by Leslle ANewman, Ballantine, 1996
• Sunshine Skyway,; fiction, in Illinois Review, Spring 1995
• On Encountering Passionate Lovers of Poe in the Former Soviet Union, poem, in The Sarajevo nthology, Elgin Community College, 1993
• "Survival,"  in Common Lives/Lesbian Lives 44 (Fall 1992)
• Getting What You Came For, fiction, in The Evergreen Chronicles, 6:1 (Winter 1990/Spring 1991), and rptd. in New Chicago Stories, City Stoop Press, 1990
•  All This Facility of Travel,; fiction, in Naming the Daytime Moon: Stories and Poems by Chicago Women, Feminist Writers Guild, 1987 (rpt. Another Chicago Press, 1989)
• Necessary Enemy, creative nonfiction, in Sojourner: The Women's Forum, January 1988
• Living in the Now: Nancy Lanoue Copes with Cancer,; creative nonfiction, in Outlines, 29 October 1987
• On the Road of Waiting,; creative nonfiction, translated into Georgian by E. Topuridze, Literaturuli Sakartvelo (Georgian Literature), January 1987
• Egan's Tennis Shoes,; fiction, in Other Voices, Fall 1986]
• I Am Not Always Nice,; fiction, in Conditions 11-12 (Summer 1985)
• Wednesday, fiction, in Sing Heavenly Muse! Number 8, Fall 1983
• Level, Plumb, and Square,; fiction, in Karamu, Fall 1983
• Father's Shadowy Legacy, creative nonfiction, in The Floridian, 13 June 1982
• The Kick, in The Denver Quarterly, fiction, summer 1977
• Blinding Yourself So That You Can See the Story, forthcoming in Associated Writing Programs' Pedagogy Papers 2004
• Essays, Features, Interviews, articles
• 'Coming Forth by Day': An Interview with Jim Elledge,; Windy City Times, 17 April 2002
• Carole Maso: Breaking Every Rule, Essay-Review of Break Every Rule
  and The Room Lit by Roses, Windy City Times, 21 June 2001
• A Conversation with Carole Maso, Windy City Times, 21 June 2001
• Swimming Upstream'Recovering the Lesbian in Native American Literature,
  in Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English: Positions, Pedagogies, and Cultural Politics, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2000
• Public Eye, Essay-Review of The Dog Collar Murders in American Book Review, summer 1996
• The Rebirth of Georgian Nationalism, Pikestaff Forum 10 (1991)
• Go After That Which Is Lost'The Marginality and Centrality of Literature, Pikestaff Forum 9 (1990)
• At Poetry's Crossroads,; Essay-Review of Gloria Bowles' Louise Bogan's

  Aesthetic of Limitation, in Women's Review of Books, May 1988
• Allen Ginsberg in the Soviet Union,; in Outlines, August 1987
• The Photography of Scott Mutter,; in Nit & Wit, January 1987
•  Ana Kalandadze and Lia Sturua: Two Contemporary Georgian Poets, in Literary Review", Fall 1986 (with Kevin Tuite)
• Georgian on His Mind, essay and photograph, in The Chicago Reader, 27 June 1986
• The Language of Lynn Webster's Art, in Nit & Wit, January 1986
• A Lifelong Pilgrimage,; Essay-Review of Louise Bogan biography in The Denver Quarterly, Fall 1985
• The Triumph of the Rural Narrative Voice in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, in Illinois Writers Review, Fall 1984      
• Reviews
  The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson, in Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association,  spring 2003
• The Sappho Companion, in Lambda Book Report, September 2001
• Virginia Woolf and the Great War, in Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, spring 2001
• AVA in the Chicago Tribune, 8 August 1993 (quoted on cover of subsequent editions of the book)
• Lily Beach in the Chicago Tribune, 30 April 1993
  Life Savings in Lambda Book Report 3:7 (November/December 1992)
• Plain Grief in Another Chicago Magazine 23 (Spring 1992)
• The Language We Use up Here in Via, Spring 1992
• The Crown of Columbus in Italian Americana, Fall 1992
• The Imposter: Stories about Netta and Stanley in the Chicago Tribune, 15 Sept. 1991
• The Queen of October in the Chicago Tribune, 12 March 1990
• Women's Ways of Knowing in Outlines, December 1987
• The Calling in Nit & Wit, September 1986
• Nobody Is Ever Missing, Winter 1985; Heretical Songs, Fall 1981; in Illinois Writers Review
• The Color Purple, in Big Mama Rag, January 1983
• The Passion Artist, Winter 1980; The Denver Quarterly
• Weep No More My Brother, Spring 1979; The Denver Quarterly
• Travesty, Winter 1976; The Denver Quarterly

Book Publications:

• Survival, a chapbook of prose poems, Thorngate Road Press, 1998
• Reclaiming the Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest, coeditor, with William J. Spurlin, University of Minnesota Press, 1996
• The Country of Herself: Short Fiction by Chicago Women, editor, Third Side Press, 1993
• Hawkwings (a novel), Third Side Press, 1991
• Carlyle Simpson (a novel), Academy Chicago, 1986

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Teacher of the Year, Columbia College of Chicago, 1996
• Finalist, American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, for Hawkwings, 1992
•   First Prize, Friends of American Writers, for Carlyle Simpson, 1987
• Chicago Foundation for Literature Award, for Carlyle Simpson, 1987 (Friends of Literature)
• Fulbright senior lectureship in American literature, Tbilisi State University, 1985-86

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Featured Reader, Pride Reading, Women and Children First Bookstore, June 2005
• Chaosity, multimedia collaborative project funded by a grant from Columbia College, summer 2000 in collaboration with Niki Nolin, Wade Roberts, Maureen Seaton, 2000-2003; http://cit.colum.edu/chaosity/; Chaosity has been presented at Gig 2.0,      at the Electronic Literature Association Annual Conference, and other venues
• A Common Flower, 1992, a 27-minute 16mm color film, directed by Doreen Bartoni, based on my story & Getting What You Came For Gay and Lesbian Film Festival screenings in cities including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne, & Paulo
• Calling Home, & in the Lesbigay play, Zebra Crossing Theater, June 1991
• Getting What You Came for, directed by Dan Scroggins, in Lexis Praxis,  Zebra Crossing Theater, April 1991

Recent Workshops:

• Advanced Novel Writing Workshop, Oak Park, 2005
• Advanced Novel Workshop, River Oak Arts, Oak Park, Illinois, six-week workshop, spring 2001
• Writing the Novel: six-week workshop, River Oak Arts, spring 2000
• Creating Memorable Characters,” River Oak Arts, November 20, 1999
  

Present Employment: Professor, English Department, Columbia College Chicago

Preferred Audience: adults interested in writing and literature

Willing to travel:Anywhere