Elizabeth A. I. Powell

Elizabeth A. I. Powell has a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Powell is the author of three books of poems, including Atomizer (LSU Press, 2020). Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, was named a “Books We Love 2016” by The New Yorker. C. K. Williams chose her first book, The Republic of Self, as the New Issues First Book Prize winner. Her novel, Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of J. Crew Catalogues, was published in 2019 in the United Kingdom.

Powell is the coeditor of Green Mountains Review and is an associate professor and chair of the writing and literature department at Northern Vermont University.