Introducing: Joseph Osmundson

Joseph Osmundson

Joseph Osmundson is a scientist, writer, and educator born and raised in the rural Pacific Northwest.  His research focuses on protein structure and function while his writing explores identity and place and sexuality and class and race and all sorts of messy, complicated stuff.  His work has been published on Gawker, and he will have an essay included in the upcoming anthology The Queer South (Sibling Rivalry Press) due out in the Fall of 2014.  He has taught at The New School and Vassar College and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Systems Biology at New York University.  You can follow him on Twitter at @reluctantlyjoe.