Owen Schaefer is a storyteller, playwright, and art reviewer living in London. For fifteen years, he lived and worked in Tokyo, spending seven of those years as a content writer, proofreader, and editor at a major Japanese publisher. He was also Arts Editor for Tokyo Weekender Magazine, and his fiction and poetry have been published in many literary journals and anthologies. 


Owen has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Awards

  • Arc Award of Awesomeness, May 2020, winner, poetry — i poison the ants and regret it
  • Writers' Union of Canada Postcard Story Competition, shortlisted — Myopia
  • Writer's Federation of New Brunswick Annual Competition, winner, poetry — Raising the Whale
  • Writer's Federation of New Brunswick Annual Competition, 3rd place, poetry — Incidence