Inside Raleigh with Featured Guest Alice Osborn

Alice Osborn’s (http://aliceosborn.com/) past educational and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a poet, as well as an editor-for-hire, writing coach, Reiki Master practitioner, dynamic speaker/facilitator. After the Steaming Stops is her most recent collection of poetry; previous collections are Right Lane Ends and Unfinished Projects. Alice is also the editor of the anthologies Tattoos and Creatures of Habitat, both from Main Street Rag Publishing Company.

She’s currently at work on her upcoming collection, Heroes without Capes. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in the News and Observer, The Broad River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings Review and in numerous journals and anthologies.She serves on the North Carolina Writers’ Network Board of Trustees. When she’s not editing or writing, Alice is a competitive Irish dancer, as well as an aspiring musician on guitar and violin. She lives in Raleigh with her husband, two children and four messy birds.

Education: MA English, Rhetoric/Composition, North Carolina State University

Master’s Thesis, “A Conversation in the Composition Classroom: Finding Our Voice Through Creative Nonfiction” Advisor: Chris M. Anson, Phd