Clare Owen worked as an actor and arts administrator before marrying a boat builder and moving to Cornwall. In 2008 she founded a theatre company specialising in improvising the real-life stories of audiences around the county, before going on to write and perform her own material with the all women ensemble Riot of the Freelance Mind. Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines, and her YA novel Zed and the Cormorants (Arachne Press) was published in 2021 and went on to win the Holyer an Gof, Young Adult Award the following year. Visit Clare’s website or find her on Twitter.