Jacqueline Owens lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with past lives in London, Los Angeles (gaining a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television), and Tokyo (promoting New Zealand products). Excerpts and short stories from the manuscript After the Encore have been published in CommuterLit and Litbreak and was an Official Selection of the London Independent Story Prize. A young adult novel, Bluest Moon, was published by a New Zealand feminist press, the screenplay, The Floating World, won Best Unproduced Script from New Zealand Writers Guild, and other recent screenplays were recognized as quarter-finalists in the Nicholl and Blue Cat Screenplay competitions.