Robert Owings writes about paradox, choosing fiction to explore a disappearing world juxtaposed against nostalgic icons. Troubled by Elephants, a mystery thriller with a cumbersome love story, is primarily set in the author’s native South and conjures the challenges of change, arguing the question: “Can one go home again?”

His first novel, Call of the Forbidden Way, is the first book of a completed trilogy that takes the reader on a shamanic odyssey within contemporary culture. It won 3 national book awards and is currently being made into a screenplay. He lives in Sonoma County, California.