Award-winning poet Karen Osborn grew up on Grand Island, Connecticut where she lived in a rural area along the banks of the Niagara River. Places filled with the power of nature and the wilderness have always been important to her. She graduated from Hollins College, an all-women's college in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and went to graduate school in the Ozarks of Arkansas. Since then she has lived in both the Southeast and in New England and has taught literature and creative writing at several colleges and universities. Both a poet and novelist, she is the author of two previous novels, Patchwork, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, andBetween Earth and Sky. She lives in Amherst Massachusetts, with her husband and two daughters.

Books by Karen Osborn

The River Road: A Novel

by Karen Osborn