Owen Elphick

Former Editor

Owen Elphick is a writer, performer, and creator from Connecticut, currently based in the Philadelphia area. His dad introduced him to Doctor Who in the summer of 2010, and he became an instant Whovian, going on to write a full series-worth of Doctor Who screenplays that now sit in a box in his childhood bedroom (the door to which is painted to look like the outside of the TARDIS). He is afraid to reread them.

These days, he works as the Assistant Editor for The Hard Work of Hope, a weekly poetry series produced by Mass Poetry in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a part-time bookseller. He is the author of Thoughts & Prayers (Wilde Press, 2019), a book-length sequence of poems centered around gun violence in the United States. His work typically grapples with questions of violence, identity, mortality, masculinity, and the natural world, and has been published in The Hartford Courant, the Under Review, and Gauge, and presented at the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Theater Institute, among other places. He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Creative Writing. In his free time, he enjoys reading, taking long walks, discussing and listening to music, and swordfighting. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @OwenElphick.