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About Randy Osborne

Randy Osborne's writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Lascaux Review, Flyleaf Journal, Identity Theory, Bodega, Full Grown People, Loose Change, Scene Missing, and others. This year, the work has been published in four print anthologies and is nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Atlanta and is represented by Emily Forland at Brandt & Hochman in New York.

Fully Aboard the Flesh Wagon: Tin House Writers Workshop, Summer 2014

Randy Osborne

Tin House 2014 notebook

About a week before his fortieth birthday, virgin poet Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) recorded in his journal that he ​​had “received a woman’s favors” at last.​ ​​His world was not rocked. … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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