Owen McLeod is a professor of philosophy at Lafayette College. His poems appear in such journals as 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Diode, Field,  Greensboro Review, Hopkins Review, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Passages North, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Sixth Finch, Smartish Pace, Southeast Review, The Southern Review, Spillway, Sugar House Review, The Sun, Water~Stone Review, Willow Springs, Yale Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, among other places, and his work has been supported by a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

His debut collection, Dream Kitchen (2019), won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. The first 15 pages of the book can be previewed here, and a review can be found in the Adroit Journal.

His second poetry collection, Before After, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2023.

Here's an interview published on The Massachusetts Review blog, and another interview published on the Water~Stone Review blog.