A.E. Osworth
Visiting Assistant Professor
they/them/theirs
462 Denney Hall
164 Annie & John Glenn Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Digital Storytelling
Education
- MFA, Fiction, The New School, 2016
- BA, Theatre Arts, Rutgers University, 2010
A.E. Osworth is a transgender novelist and a visiting assistant professor at The Ohio State University, where they teach fiction, nonfiction and video game analysis. Their debut, We Are Watching Eliza Bright (Grand Central Publishing 2021), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and long listed for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and The Tournament of Books. They also have a decade-long career writing nonfiction on the internet, which includes a stint as Geekery Editor for Autostraddle and as a columnist for Catapult. You can find their work on Guernica, Electric Literature and Quartz, among others.