Owen King

Life and career

Reception

Personal life

Awards

• John Gardner Award
• Fink Award
• Nominated for a "National Magazine Award"

  Works

• We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories
• *"We're All in This Together"
• *"Frozen Animals"
• *"Wonders"
• *"Snake"
• *"My Second Wife"
• Double Feature
• Sleeping Beauties, co-written with Stephen King

• Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing Stories

• Intro to Alien Invasion, co-written with Mark Jude Poirier, drawings by Nancy Ahn
• Sleeping Beauties, co-written with Stephen King, adapted by Rio Youers, illustrations by Alison Sampson

• Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Stories edited by John McNally
• When I Was A Loser edited by John McNally
• HANG THE DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists edited by Angus Cargill
• The Late American Novel: Writers On The Future Of Books edited by Jeff Martin & C. Max Magee
• Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on their Unshakeable Love for New York edited by Sari Botton
• The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages edited by Andrew Blauner
• Detours edited by Brian James Freeman

• "My Second Wife", The Bellingham Review #48, Spring 2001
• "Wonders", Book Magazine #22, May/June 2002
• "Frozen Animals", Harper Palate, Vol. 3 #1, Summer 2003
• "The Cure", One Story #85, Dec. 20, 2006
• "Nothing is in Bad Taste", Subtropics #5, Winter/Spring 2008
• "Home Brew", Prairie Schooner, Vol. 85 #2, Summer 2011
• "The Idiot's Ghost", The Fairy Tale Review #7, The Brown Issue
• "The Curator", Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #31, Dec. 2014
• "Confederate Wall", Subtropics Issue 19, Spring/Summer 2015
• “Positive Comments”, Ploughshares/Emerson College, Kindle Single

• 25 Years in the Word Mines: The Best of Graham Joyce by Graham Joyce
• The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
• The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd

• "Singing Along To A Murderous Threat, NPR song of the day: “You Rascal You” by Hanni El Khatib"
• "A Gallery of Drama, NPR song of the day: “Change the Sheets” by Kathleen Edwards"
• "Tear For Tear, Without Peer, NPR song of the day: “Look the Other Way” by Justin Townes Earle"
• "Interview with Tom Bissell" The Rumpus
• "The Biggest Thing Ever, an excerpt from Double Feature" Guernica
• "Interview with Erin McKeown" The Rumpus
• "Book Notes: Double Feature" Largehearted Boy
• "Role Remix: Steve Buscemi” Grantland
• "” The Weeklings
• "Best Guess: Owen King interprets the Exhibit Song Book, an exchange with singer/songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs"
• "Interview with Peter Squires" The Rumpus
• "Matters of Faint Import, Vol. 1: “The Dress Code of Mumford & Sons" The Weeklings
• "Review of People Park by Pasha Malla" Publishers Weekly
• "Matters of Faint Import, Vol. 2: “Holiday Special” The Weeklings
• "The Heiress, Review of Havisham by Ronald Frame" Los Angeles Review of Books
• "Director’s Cut, Review of Mount Terminus by David Grand" The New York Times Book Review
• "Nine Librarian-Approved Headlines For The Rest Of The Season" Just A Bit Outside
• "Baseball’s Greatest Hit" Just A Bit Outside
• "Spinners 5, Gades 0" Just A Bit Outside
• "No, Pitchers Don’t Have To Look Like Pitchers" Just A Bit Outside
• "JABO Book Club: Alison Gordon’s Foul Balls, A Conversation with Rob Neyer" Just A Bit Outside
• "Baseball Language and The Players" Just A Bit Outside
• "Big Brother: A Conversation with Andrew Ervin" The Brooklyn Rail