ABOUT
POETRY, ESSAYS, ETC.
Her writing has recently appeared in Grimoire, Marrow Magazine, and Dark Winter. A poem, "house of strays," appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A Day:365 Poems for Every Occasion anthology. She has read her work in a number of galleries, bars, cafes, conferences, academic institutions, and other venues, including the Field Museum of Natural History and the Poetry Foundation.
ART, BOOKS, & PAPER
An extension of writing and story-making, Bowen's visual experiments include collage, printmaking, installation, assemblage, altered books, zines, and watercolor, with recent forays into digital art, AI-generated images, and video poetry. Her visual/text work has appeared in several Chicago-area galleries and a number of publications, including a retrospective portfolio of work, "The Poetics of Ephemera" in Tupelo Quarterly. She occasionally facilitates workshops in zine making, bookwrecking, and other paper arts. She runs DANCING GIRL PRESS & STUDIO, where she makes and sells all manner of art, books, paper goods and accessories, as well as curates a long-running chapbook series devoted to women writers.
LIFESTYLE & DESIGN WRITING
Bowen creates content for a number of publications and websites about design, decor, DIY, art, crafting, antiques, and food & leisure. She is a staff writer for House Digest, with additional work appearing in Cozymeal, Classpop!, E-How, Homes.com, Worthpoint, Thriftcon, and others. She is currently working on a memoir project about writing and thrifting