1. Rochelle Owens was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, then studied at the New School for Social Research and the University of Montreal.
10 Facts About Rochelle Owens
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Rochelle Owens has taught at Brown University, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
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Rochelle Owens's biography is published in Gale Research Contemporary Authors, Volume 2.
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Rochelle Owens was highly involved in the early off-off-Broadway theatre movement.
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Rochelle Owens's work has influenced experimental playwrights and poets in subsequent generations.
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Rochelle Owens was a founding member of the New York Theater Strategy and the Women's Theater Council.
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Rochelle Owens' plays have been performed in theatre festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, and Berlin.
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Rochelle Owens' poems appear in the volume Jones edited in 1962 titled "Four Young Lady Poets".
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Rochelle Owens read her poems at The Poetry Project at St Marks Church In-the-Bowery in New York City, on the same bill that included Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.
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In 1984, after relocating to Norman, Oklahoma, Rochelle Owens hosted "The Writers Mind", a radio interview program from the University of Oklahoma with various artists.