Trevor Owen was born in Toronto. He is a graduate of the B.F.A. and B.Ed. programs at York University, and the M.A. (Education) program at Simon Fraser University. He was a Doctoral Candidate (currently "A.B.D.") in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary , where he held the Galileo Fellowship at Banded Peak School in Bragg Creek, Alberta.

Trevor has worked at all levels of education, serving principally as a teacher at the secondary level, and as a teacher educator at the post-secondary level  (pre-service/under-graduate, graduate and professional), including a variety of consultative and administrative roles at each level. He is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers.

He returned to classroom teaching at the secondary level in 1999, serving as Head of English at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute with the Toronto District School Board until 2003.

Trevor has served as editor (1993-99) of the Journal of Online Learning, a quarterly journal of the International Society for Technology in Education, and as a member of the Instructional Technology Committee (ITC) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) since the committee's inception in 1993. Trevor served as ITC's Chair for the 1999-2002 term.

With Ron Owston, Trevor is co-author of The Learning Highway: Smart Students and the Net (Key Porter Books, 1998.) He has authored and co-authored many articles in a variety of educational journals and publications (e.g., Education Canada, English Journal, The Computing Teacher (now Learning & Leading with Technology), ECOO Output, among others), and he served as founding editor of the Learning with Technology column in English Journal.

In 1993, Trevor was named to Maclean's magazine's "Honor Roll." Other honours include the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Award , and a "Teacher Research on Literacy" Award (Canadian Teachers' Federation and the Hilroy Foundation.) He is listed in Canadian Who's Who.

Trevor has focused on his work with WiER since retiring (yes, early...) from the Toronto District School Board in 2004-5. He continues to teach part-time, online in Queen's University's Continuing Teacher Education programs, and face-to-face for Seneca College.