Carolyn Osborn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Journalism degree in 1955, and an M.A. in 1959. She has won awards from P.E.N., the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Distinguished Prose Award from The Antioch Review (2003). Her stories have been included in The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday, 1990) and Lone Star Literature (Norton, 2003), among numerous other anthologies.

Osborn is the author of two novels, Contrary People (Wings Press, 2012) and Uncertain Ground (Wings Press,2009), a memoir, Durations (Wings Press, 2017), and four collections of short stories, including A Horse of Another Color (University of Illinois Press, 1977), The Fields of Memory (Shearer Publishing, 1984), Warriors & Maidens (Texas Christian University Press, 1991) and Where We Are Now (Wings Press, 2014).

The Book Club of Texas published an illustrated, specially bound edition of her story, The Grands (1990). In 2009, she received the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

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