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Elizabeth A.I. Powell

Professor / Northern Vermont University; Editor / Green Mountains Review

Birth Year
b. 1965
Current City
Vermont, USA
Birth City
New York, NY, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Fiction
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Photo credit: Photo Credit: Marion Ettlinger

Biography

Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poems, most recently Atomizer (LSU Press). Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances was a “Books We Love 2016” by The New YorkerThe Boston Globe has called her recent work “wry and fervent” and “awash in synesthesiastic revelation.” Her novel, Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues was published in 2019 in the U.K.   Recent poems appear in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Women’s Review of Books, Seneca Review, among others.

Published Works

Poetry
Atomizer (Louisiana State University, 2020)
Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary, Circumstances (Anhinga Press, 2016)
Republic of Self (New Issues, 2001)

Novel
Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of J Crew Catalogues (Leaky Boot Press, 2019)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Art & Ekphrasis, Motherhood/Fertility, Mythology, Sports.