Island Falls

Owen Toews is the award-winning author of Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg (ARP Books). Born and raised in Winnipeg, Owen is a member of the abolitionist prisoner solidarity group Bar None, a member of the Winnipeg anti-austerity coalition Budget For All, and a founding member of the DIY museum collective Winnipeg Arcades Project. He trained as a geographer at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He held the University of Alberta's Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in politics, history, economy, or society of Western Canada, and was an instructor at the Macaulay Honors College-Brooklyn College and the Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. He works part-time as a university teacher and as acquisitions editor for ARP Books' Semaphore series.