Owen is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. His climate-related work includes a BBC Proms youth oratorio The Water Diviner’s Tale, a BBC One drama The Trick, and a forthcoming opera for WNO, Sea Change. In 2021, in collaboration with Dhaka Lit Fest in Bangladesh, he curated Everything Change, a week-long series of events focused on creativity and the climate crisis.