Stories and Songs - Mark Powell

Mr. Powell joined the Appalachian State University English Department in 2016. He is the author of six novels, including Small Treasons (Gallery/Simon and Schuster 2017) - a SIBA Okra Pick, and a Southern Living Best Book of the Year - and has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and twice from the Fulbright Foundation to Slovakia and Romania. In 2009, he received the Chaffin Award for his contribution to Appalachian literature. He has written about Southern culture and music for the Oxford American, the war in Ukraine for The Daily Beast, and his dog for Garden & Gun. He holds degrees from the Citadel, the University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School, and directs the creative writing program at ASU.