
Owen Torrey
About the Artist
Owen Torrey is a writer from Toronto working in poetry, fiction, and performance. His work has appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, A Public Space, Canadian Literature, Gulf Coast, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, Geist, Oxonian Review, Best Canadian Poetry, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the CBC-Radio Canada Poetry Prize and the Montreal International Poetry Prize, and awarded the Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award, and the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize. His first book, Unseasonal, will be published in 2027 by Véhicule Press, and his chapbook, Overblue, was published in 2025 with Anstruther Press. Owen holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where he taught poetry and creative writing.