Steve D. Owen is currently a grad student in English at CSUS with a focus in American literature, creative writing (short fiction, flash fiction, poetry), and literary theory (Poststructuralism and Classical theory). As an undergraduate, he double-majored in English and Philosophy, graduating Magna Cum Laude and excelling in Epistemology, logical analysis, Philosophy of Religion, Atheology, and Mind, literary and film criticism, composition (fiction and non-fiction), prosody, oral communication, and debate. He likes fiction and poetry that is tragic, transgressive, surreal, horrific, and darkly comic.

Awards

2009 Bazzanella Literary Award: 1st Place Poetry – Graduate: “The Inheritance”

2007 Bazzanella Literary Award: 2nd Place Short Fiction – Undergraduate: “The Boy Who Walked”

2006 Bazzanella Literary Award: 1st Place Expository Prose – Undergraduate: “Quest for the Dead” 2006 Bazzanella Literary Award: 2nd Place Short Fiction – Undergraduate “Baby-Food”

2006 Karen Lee Warmdahl Scholarship (For students exhibiting special talent in creative writing)