Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Owen Thomas is a life-long Alaskan and avid reader. He has written three novels: "The Lion Trees" (which has garnered a dozen book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, and the Beverly Hills International Book Award); "Signs of Passing" (a novel of interconnected short stories, and winner of fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction, also named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine); and "Lying Under Comets: A Love Story of Passion, Murder, Snacks and Graffiti." Owen maintains an active fiction and photography blog on Tumblr, his Facebook Fan Page, and on his author website at owenthomasfiction.com. Additional short fiction pieces are available in their entirety at Owen's website in a blog feature called "Tiny Points of Life" (http://www.owenthomasfiction.com/index.php/fiction_blog/tiny-points-of-life-archive). Owen's short story "Everything Stops" is included in "Modern Shorts," an anthology of short fiction published by Fiction Attic Press, available at Amazon. Owen's seasonal short stories "Nothing to Worry About" and "Island Santa" are available on Blurb.com and Amazon, respectively. Links to all works can be found on the author's website. For the fifth consecutive year since he has been measuring his commercial success as an author, Owen has not won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Also, to great acclaim, he has not won the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, in April of 2016, Owen was not nominated for a Pulitzer. When he is not writing, Owen can be found recreating and taking photographs in the grandeur of his Alaskan backyard and in the middle of the dream that is Hawaii. Some of these photos are posted on Owen's photo blog, 1000 Words per Frame. Owen fervently believes our problem is not that life is too short, but that it tends to be much too narrow.  Also, whimsy in living is far too important to take seriously. But both of those propositions are the subject of on-going litigation. In the meantime, Owen is increasingly concerned that referring to oneself in the third-person is dangerously habit-forming.

"The Lion Trees" has garnered a dozen book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, and the Beverly Hills International Book Award.

"Signs of Passing" (a book of interconnected short fiction) has won fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction and was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine.