 He is the editor of "Great Letters", a selection of notable, witty and quirky correspondence to The Times during the past century, and co-editor with Samantha Wyndham of "Great War Letters", an anthology of letters published in the newspaper during the First World War.Owen also works as a journalist and critic and is a former trustee of the London Library.He was a teaching Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 2012 until 2014 and at University College London (UCL) in 2014-2015.