Gwendolyn Osborne (a.k.a "The Word Diva") is a freelance writer based in
Chicago. She is a hopeless romantic and an unabashed book junkie. She prefers to
be called "Gwen," but unapologetically uses the longer version in her bylines
"because it takes up more space in print."
Gwen began her journalism career as a reviewer for The Detroit Free Press. Her
work has also appeared in several national publications including Book Magazine,
Mode Magazine and The Crisis, the organizational publication of the NAACP. She
currently serves as an associate editor for Black Issues Book Review.
Gwen enjoys well-written novels about women who are smart, feisty and funny, and
men who know how to appreciate such a woman.
Beverly Jenkins, Brenda Jackson,
Carla Fredd, Rochelle Alers,
Janice Sims, Evelyn Palfrey, Gay G. Gunn, Lori Foster, Vicki Lewis Thompson and
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (the Chicago Stars series) are among her favorite
romance novelists. She enjoys discovering the new authors she adds to her
Emerging Authors List.
When she's not reading romance, Gwen enjoys books on tape and the continuing
characters created in mysteries by a growing number of African-American writers
she calls "Sister Sleuths." These include Valerie Wilson Wesley,
Barbara Neely, Paula Woods,
Evelyn Coleman, Karen Grigsby
Bates, Ardella Garland,
Pamela
Thomas Graham. She is also a fan of
Walter Mosley, of Gar Anthony
Haywood's Loudermilk series and of the Detroit-based mysteries by Gary Hardwick,
Lee Meadows and Sterling
Anthony. Works by novelists Tina
McElroy Ansa and Pearl Cleage, poet
Nikki Giovanni, artist Jonathan
Green, historian Darlene Clark Hine and playwright August Wilson share space on
her keeper shelf with her favorite romances and mysteries.
Related Links
Gwen Osborne - Romance Reader
http://www.theromancereader.com/gwen.html
(source of above biography)
