Owen McLeod is a philosophy professor, studio potter, and a poet. His poems appear in 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, and many other places.

His debut poetry collection, Dream Kitchen (2019), was selected by Rosanna Warren for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His second poetry collection, Before After, was published by Saturnalia Books (2023).

If you're interested in seeing some of his pottery, go here.