Jen Osborn

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -+ e. e. cummings +- Jen Osborn is a third generation artist and freelance writer who lives in rural Michigan with her family. She has an enormous imagination and loves nothing more than opening other people’s eyes to what lies inside her mind by creating artwork that’s as fun to touch as it is to look at! She stitches together fabric and paper to create tiny story quilts which tease your eyes and tickle your heart. In 2003 she developed an innovative art technique for manipulating transparency images with fire that was published in Transparent Art and Somerset Workshop 2. Currently she writes for Cloth Paper Scissors, and numerous Somerset titles.i She just finished writing her first book, Mixed and Stitched, which hits newsstands June 2011, and she's love if you give it a look-see!