Lane Osborne completed his MFA at Warren Wilson College and teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, where he serves as the nonfiction editor for Waccamaw. His work, which has previously been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 Rash Award in Fiction, has appeared in various journals, including Chautauqua, SmokeLong Quarterly, and storySouth.