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Jan Owen AM (born 17 October 1959) is an Australian non-government sector leader, social entrepreneur, and author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime (1996) and The Future Chasers (2014). Career. Owen was President of the Youth Affairs Council of Australia from 1984 to 1986, which included International Youth Year, held in 1985.
Biography. Jan Owen, born in Adelaide in 1940, traces her lineage back through generations of Welsh seafarers and Cornish miners. She studied arts and librarianship and raised three children before claiming time to write and travel. From her prize-winning first book Boy with a Telescope to her CD, Laughing in Greek, her work reveals a wide ...
Jan Owen. Born in Adelaide, Australia, Jan Owen studied arts at the University of Adelaide, where she earned her BA. She raised her children and worked as a librarian, tutoring in the Library Studies Department at the South Australian Institute of Technology, before turning to her own writing. Her poetry collections include Boy with Telescope ...
Elwood: John Leonard Press, 2008, 328pp. (also) Jan Owen: Blackberry Season (Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2007).First published by Molonglo Press, 1997. Jan Owen is one of those poets who becomes progressively more interesting not because the quality of the work improves radically or because they write a breakthrough work, but because it takes a number of books before readers can see the ...
Jan Owen made an immediate impact on many of her fellow poets and contemporaries with her first collection, Boy with a Telescope, published in 1986. It received two of the important honors reserved for new poets in Australia—the Anne Elder prize and the Mary Gilmore award.
Jan Owen. Born in 1947. Owen grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She graduated in 1969 from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she focused on art and English. After moving to Bangor, Maine, she worked as printmaker and graphic designer. With the birth of twin daughters in 1978, she began teaching herself calligraphy.
Jan Owen is a South Australian poet whose eighth book, The Offhand Angel, was published in London by Eyewear. Her translations from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal came out with Arc Publications in 2015, and her poems are included on websites such as Poetry Archive and Poetry Foundation. In 2016 she was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal.
