Patricia Powell

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Patricia Powell (1966- ) is an American novelist, the author of A Small Gathering of Bones, Me Dying Trial and The Pagoda. Powell is the Martin Luther King Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at MIT. She formerly taught at Harvard University.

Powell received her bachelor's degree at Wellesley, and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, where she studied with Michael Ondaatje, among others.

Literary awards include:

  • Pen New England Discovery Award,
  • Bruce Rossley Literary Award,
  • Ferro-Grumley Award for fiction,
  • Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award,
  • YWCA Tribute to Outstanding Women Award.

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