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

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Owen is the author of two books on Canadian foreign policy – Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023 and Targeting Libya – and the co-author of Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy with Yves Engler. He is a writer of short stories, novels, political analyses, and essays on film and literature. He is a columnist at Canadian Dimension, and has written for Briarpatch, Jacobin, The Maple, Monthly Review, Protean Magazine, and many other publications.

Owen’s journalistic work focuses on Canada’s domestic and foreign policy. He has also written essays on film and literature for Canadian Dimension, Monthly Review, and Liberated Texts. In November 2021, Monthly Review published “​Disney, Salò, and Pasolini’s Inconsumable Art,” his critical analysis of the modern culture industry through three films by Pier Paolo Pasolini. To get a sense for his 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.

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