Fiona Owen’s home is on Ynys Môn, where she lives with her husband, Gorwel, and their two collies, Mabon and Beca. Fiona’s next poetry collection, Anima/l, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in the autumn of 2024.
Fiona was Scintilla poetry editor for issues 16 and 17, but stepped down after the tragic murder of Anne Cluysenaar, co-founder of the journal, and good friend. In 2016, Fiona edited At Time’s Edge: Remembering Anne Cluysenaar, which was published by The Vaughan Association. Fiona’s previous poetry collections are The Green Gate (Cinnamon Press), Going Gentle (Gomer), Imagining the Full Hundred (Gwasg Pantycelyn) and the Flarestack pamphlet O My Swan. Screen of Brightness (Cinnamon Press) was co-written with Meredith Andrea. Fiona’s work can be found in assorted journals, magazines and anthologies. She holds an MA in Writing and runs quarterly Eye of the Storm ‘writing at depth’ sessions on Zoom.
For twenty-four years, she taught arts/humanities undergraduates for the Open University, which included creative writing, levels 1, 2 & 3. Prior to this, and alongside, she has taught creative writing in a variety of forms since the early 1990s for the WEA, Coleg Menai and the Department of Lifelong Learning, Bangor University. She set up and ran the Ucheldre Literary Society and Rhwng: the Point Between for many years in Canolfan Ucheldre Cenre, Holyhead.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Fiona was singer/songwriter with the Welsh-language electro-pop group Eirin Peryglus and worked with Gorwel Owen as part of the art-music project Plant Bach Ofnus. Now, Fiona and Gorwel write and record songs together, with three CDs currently available, the latest being Releasing Birds. https://fionagorwelowen.bandcamp.com/
