Betty Owens was born on the family property at Kilmore East in Victoria and educated at St Margaret's Girls School and Melbourne University. While secretary of the Henry Lawson Society at Gulgong, New South Wales, Owens started a Henry Lawson bush verse competition. Her poetry was published in the Land, the Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse anthologies as well as the Gulgong Writing Groups' anthology, Write it Down for Me (1980).
