Publications

Creative Writing

The Crash — Lowestoft Chronicle, 2025
Memoir/Humor
A car crash in Morocco causes an unexpected event.

Detention — 101 Words, 2025
Horror
A student’s parents protest an unjust detention.

The Bathhouse — Writer’s Journal, 2024
Memoir/Humor
A visit to a Moroccan bathhouse requires introspection.

A Meeting at a Fountain in Fez — The Icarus Writing Collective, 2024
Speculative fiction
A tourist gets entangled with a figure from Moroccan folklore.

Thank You For Giving One Hundred and Ten Percent — Champaign Public Library Short Story Contest Finalist Selection, 2022
Humor
A woman in a post-apocalyptic society is fired from her corporate job

Purple Combat Boots — From the Essay Collection Why I Don’t Hide My Freckles Anymore, Deseret Books, 2013
Memoir/Humor
Reflections on the importance of my purple combat boots.

Academic Writing

Cvetkovic, C., Jahnke, K., Lindley, S. E., & Owen, B. (2024). “Embedding the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Undergraduate Bioengineering Courses: Two Instructional Laboratory Case Studies.” 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon.

Owen, B. “Self-Confidence in Moroccan Women: Understanding and Implications” (2017). Stevenson Center Research. 28.

Owen, B. et al. (2015). “Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration: Strategies for Successful Reentry.” Final Report for Labyrinth Outreach Services for Women. Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development.