Owens, Mike

Mike Owens has undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He obtained his MFA degree in creative writing from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. He has worked extensively with hospice programs and is the author of two textbooks on care of the dying: Care of the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient (2002), and Primary Care Issues for End-of-Life Care (2003). His first novel, The End of Free Will, was published in January, 2014. Mike lives in Norfolk, VA, with his wife, Marilyn, and their dog, Molly, a highly critical eleven-year-old Weimaraner.