Laurinel Owen enjoys an international career as a cellist and journalist. She has published over 130 articles in Strings Magazine, The Strad, and Muso on topics related to cello technique, soloist, luthier and music school profiles, concert, festival, and record reviews. She also has been on "assignment" in France, Germany, Russia, England, Italy, the Czech Republic, China, South Africa, and throughout the United States. Her book Bowed Arts, a biography of cellist Bernard Greenhouse, was published in German and English in 2001.