Clare Owen

After working as an actor for ten years, Clare Owen married a boat builder and moved to Cornwall.  In 2008 she founded a theatre company specializing in improvising the real-life stories of audiences around the county and she writes and performs her own material with the all-women ensemble, Riot of the Freelance Mind. Her short stories have been published online and in print and her first YA novel, Zed and the Cormorants (Arachne Press). Her first debut adult fiction novel Creatures of a Brief Season will be published in September 2026