Writer from Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory. Born 1998 in Winnipeg, MB.

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Owen’s books include Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023 (Lorimer, 2023), Targeting Libya: How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens (Lorimer, 2025), and Canada & NATO: The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper (ARP Books, 2026). He is a columnist at Canadian Dimension, and he has written for many other publications including Canada‘s National Observer, Jacobin, The Maple, Monthly Review, and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

To get a sense of Owen’s fiction work, check out “Speaking in Regrets,” which won Humber Literary Review‘s 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, and “She’s a Beauty,” published by Vast Chasm Magazine in summer 2023.

Owen is a member of the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee and Cat’s Cradle (Tiger’s Eye), a proletarian internationalist organization with comrades in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Panama, and Palestine.

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