(Bio lifted from JACK Magazine, No. 3, [http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue3/welcome.html] founded and edited by Mary Sands and Michael Rothenberg):

"Maureen Owen's Selected Poems: American Rush is just out from Talisman House Publishers following her eighth book of poems, Untapped Maps from Potes and Poets Press. A co-director/coordinator at the St. Mark's Poetry Project for several years, she has taught workshops in poetry and book production. Her press, Telephone Books, includes over 30 book titles to date and 19 issues of Telephone Magazine. Her title AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. She has received a Poetry Fellowship from the NEA, awards from The Fund for Poetry, and has most recently been awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc."

See also Marcella Durand's interview with Maureen from John Trantner's Jacket Magazine No. 11 (http://jacketmagazine.com/11/owen-durand.html)