A former longtime manager in local government and ex-newspaper reporter, Keli Osborn lives in western Oregon where she writes, plays the drums, and works with community organizations. Her poems have appeared in Timberline Review, San Pedro River Review and other journals, and in several collections including Nasty Women Poets, An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017), All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood (Sage Hill Press, 2016), and The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017).