Jacqueline Owens lives in Wellington. Vividwater was longlisted for Grindstone Literary International Novel Prize, and shortlisted twice in the Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. It is the first in a three-part series.

Excerpts and short stories from other manuscripts have been published in online journals. A screenplay, The Floating World, won the New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) Best Unproduced Screenplay Competition and
another, Three Gardens, was a quarterfinalist in the Nicholl and Blue Cat competitions. A young adult novel, Bluest Moon, was published by New Women's Press, in the 90s.

Outside writing, she has had mnemopath-like jobs in government and made the most of degrees in Classics and Political Science, as a grand-finalist on Mastermind New Zealand, with subjects The Chronicles of Narnia and Classical Greek Mythology. While doing a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Screen and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, she was a university teaching assistant and assessed screenplays for production companies.