Maureen Owen

Maureen Owen, a previous Coordinator at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and former editor in chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, is the author of 12 books including Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems, Talisman House, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. She has taught at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program, in Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, and edited Naropa’s on-line zine "not enough night" through 19 issues. Her recent title Edges of Water is available from Chax Press, chax@the river.com. She has most recently had work in Posit, Positive Magnets, Three Fold and Hurricane Review. Just out from Hanging Loose Press is her new title let the heart hold down the breakage Or the caregiver's log. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, she can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.

Forthcoming from City Point Press is Poets on the Road, a print version of a blog kept by herself and fellow writer Barbara Henning, two women poets as they trek across America giving poetry readings. The road trip was in a sense a pilgrimage of reengagement with their calling as poets, and a chance to reacquaint themselves with like-minded friends, old and new, in a far flung landscape of American poetry.