Orla Owen's new book, Christ On A Bike, was published by the award winning Bluemoose Books, on 25 January 2024.

Her writing focuses on the dark and macabre side of family life, the parts that go on behind closed doors.

Before she became a writer, she was an actress and drama practitioner, studying Theatre at Bretton Hall College of the Arts.

Supporting women in writing is important to her and she was lucky enough to work on a writers’ mentoring scheme, as an assistant to the author Kerry Hudson, at the WoMentoring Project. In 2016 she was picked to be mentored by Sarah Savitt at Virago, and in 2020 she won second place in the Sandstone Press Short fiction competition.

The Lost Thumb was published in March 2019, and PAH was published in July 2021.