Kelli Owen
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| Born | March 18, 1969 Superior, Wisconsin |
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Kelli Owen (born March 18, 1969 in Superior, Wisconsin) is an American author, editor, podcaster and webmaster, known primarily for her work in dark thrillers and quiet horror fiction.
Early Life[edit]
Owen was born in 1969, and while she lived briefly in Texas as a child before returning to Wisconsin, she relocated to Pennsylvania 2009. Her stories tend to not only be connected by some common thread among them (be it characters, town, or mention of another plot), they tend to take place in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or on the road in between, as is the case with her novel White Picket Prisons and (connected short story) Jim's Meats (in the anthology Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road).
She has been an arcade attendant, stand-up video game console repairer, short-order cook, factory line onion ring sorter, cashier, receptionist, and even a part-time tarot card reader, before getting a degree in Accounting to provide a steady income during the day while writing at night.
Career[edit]
Owen began her career as a teenager, writing and submitting to various poetry contests and short fiction magazines, while she worked on longer works in horror and fantasy. Taking a hiatus from submitting, she married and concentrated on her family. When the internet became commonplace, she joined a large multi-genre website meant to provide news, articles and discussion through message boards. As editor and designer, Owen managed and led the community's horror section for several years, before branching off on her own to create Horror-Web. With a staff of seventeen, she grew Horror-Web for almost a decade into a well known and respected site for genre news, interviews, and especially reviews. Known for exceptionally honest reviews, she was offered pre-reading positions with many of the genres mid-list authors and quickly became an editor for several of them. Upon learning she was a writer who didn't submit for publication, she was collectively fired and told to concentrate on her own writing.
She began submitting again (after over a decade) in 2004 and sold Horror-Web in 2005, to concentrate on her writing, stating "I didn't want to be a webmaster when I grew up, I wanted to be a writer." She enjoyed acceptances and praise for the first several short pieces she submitted, and her first novel Six Days, was well-received by critics and fans alike. Described as "quiet horror" or "thrillers with a horrific bent," her themes and writing style have been compared to Jack Ketchum, as well as Bentley Little and George RR Martin.
To date, Owen has written over a dozen books including novels, novellas and collections, as well as appeared in several anthologies and many interviews. Dabbling in podcasting for a bit, Owen has returned to concentrating her energy on writing fiction, but still edits for others on occasion.
Personal Life[edit]
Owen is the oldest of four siblings, their collective ages ranging across nineteen years. Divorced, Owen writes under her maiden name, but several early pieces appear under her married name. She has two adult children, and three grandchildren.
Owen experienced several years that were difficult on her and affected her writing, beginning with the lose of her father, Christopher Rust Owen, to cancer in 2017, which stopped her writing completely for a time. Her feelings on that experience and cancer itself are touched upon in her nonfiction piece "Complications Of..." found in Clickers Forever: A Tribute to J. F. Gonzalez. Owen's mother, Julie (Hayes) Owen, is a cancer survivor who has also undergone two heart surgeries, the second in 2018. Later that year, Owen's daughter, Amanda, lost her husband to a heart attack after a short battle with a newly discovered congenital defect.
Philanthropy[edit]
Owen has given yearly to various children's hospitals and childhood disease charities since her daughter lost a friend to cancer, after a three year battle, when they were in the eighth grade. Outside of that, she has supported Scares That Care, a 501c charity, since its inception in 2011, through donation days, Amazon's "smile" program, and personal donations, as well as attended its yearly fund raising convention as either a guest or vendor.
Bibliography[edit]
NOVELS[edit]
The Headless Boy (2021)
Teeth (2018)
Floaters (2016)
Live Specimens (2012)
White Picket Prisons (2013)
Six Days (2010)
COLLECTIONS[edit]
Waking the Dead (2013)
Black Bubbles (2012)
SERIES NOVELLAS/NOVELS[edit]
Apocalyptic Series
Waiting Out Winter (book 1) (2011)
The Hatch (book 2) (2015)
Wilted Lily Series
Wilted Lilies (book 1) (2014)
Passages (book 2) (2019)
books 3-5 TBA
NOVELLAS[edit]
Forgotten (2017)
Deceiver (2014)
Grave Wax (2014)
Buried Memories (2014)
Survivor’s Guilt (2014)
Crossroads (2014)
The Neighborhood (2011)
CHAPBOOKS[edit]
“Left for Dead | Fall from Grace” Fresh Blood (2009) Mia Moja (2014) respectively
“Divorcing the Dead” Maelstrom chap with Brian Keene (2010)
“Left for Dead” (2009) appeared in Fresh Blood as Kelli Dunlap with Dave Alexander & Bob Freeman
“How’s That Make You Feel” (2008) in New Dawn as Kelli Dunlap, with Robert Ford, Nate Southard & Maurice Broaddus.
SHORT FICTION[edit]
“Still Life” (2020) in Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes Yardley, Crystal Lake Publishing
“Faith No More” (2020) in Twisted Love, edited by Sandra Ruttan, Bronzeville Books
“Beneath the Tides” (2019) in Dark Tides: A Charity Horror Anthology, edited by John J. Questore, Gestalt Media
“Ghost Blood” (2019) in Midnight in the Graveyard, edited by Kenneth W. Cain, Silver Shamrock Publishing
“Jim’s Meats” (2018) Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road, edited by D) Alexander Ward, Crystal Lake Publishing
“Open Mic Night” (2018) Welcome to the Show, edited by Matt Hayward, Crystal Lake Publishing
“Atrocious Alphabet” (2018) coloring book/poetry/other
“Complications of” (2018) nonfiction piece in Clickers Forever: A Tribute to J. F. Gonzalez, Thunderstorm Books
“Tin Box” (2017) in My Favorite Story Podcast Author Anthology, Project Entertainment Network
“Fall from Grace” (2014) Mia Moja, edited by Nate Southard & Michael McBride, Thunderstorm Books
“Spell” (2012) originally included in Black Bubbles collection, later featured in Lamplight Vol 1 Issue 2
“Hot Dogma” (2011) Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Eraserhead Press
“Spilled Milk” (2010) included in The Rising: Deliverance by Brian Keene, Maelstrom (Thunderstorm Books)
“Childhood Ghosts” (2010) Shroud Magazine, Halloween Issue
“Black Hole Sun” (2010) Dark Futures, Apex Publications
“Divorcing the Dead” (2010) Choate Road, Spotlight Scribe, March 2010
“Good Enough” (2010) Dark Faith, Apex Publications/Mo’Con Anthology
“Calling the Dead” (2009) Legends of the Mountain State 3
“The Man Who Slept Through Tomorrow” (2009) Shroud Magazine #6
“Finger Painting” (2007) Raw Meat Anthology
“Crash and Burn” (2006) Insidious Reflections #5
“The Rabbit” (2005) Wicked Karnival #6
“What If?” (2005) Flash Me Magazine, Vol 3. Issue 9
“Waterlogged Innocence” (2005) Rumble
“Feeding the Animals” (2005) Nocturnal Ooze
“Dinner” (2005) Blood Cookies #2
“The Tree” (2004) Dead in 13 Flashes Two, Dream People
POETRY[edit]
“Shadows in a Bowl of Soup” (2007) Aoife’s Kiss #23
“Haikruel” (2006) Michael Arnzen’s Mess Up My Fridge
“The Cannibal has Come to Dine” (2005) Wicked Karnival #5
“Sally had a Pocket Knife” (2005) Wicked Karnival #5
“Billy Bonnie” (2005) Wicked Karnival #5
“Victims” (2005) Poe Little Thing #3
“Puddles” (2005) Decompositions
“Dregs of Horror Prose” (2005) The Harrow
“The Body” (2004) Yellow Bat, Vol 1 Issue 3
NON-FICTION: ARTICLES & INTROS[edit]
“Where did all the monsters go?” article, Shroud Magazine, Halloween Issue 2010
Introduction for “The Mother” by Brett McBean (2009)
Kissing Babies and Selling Books, Guest Editorial on Brian Keene’s Hail Saten Blog, September 2006
Podcasts[edit]
Owen hosted a weekly podcast called Buttercup of Doom, in which she offered writing advice, a timely rant on society, and occasionally had guests and live readings. Her podcast episodes are still/now available on her patreon page.
External Links[edit]
- Official Website
- Kelli Owen at Patreon
- Kelli Owen at internet speculative fiction database
- Kelli Owen on Facebook
- Kelli Owen on Twitter Category: Women horror writers Category: American horror writers Category: Thriller writers Category: Women thriller writers Category: American thriller writers Category: American horror novelists Category: American short story writers Category: American psychological fiction writers
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