Mark Powell
Assistant Professor of English
Mark Powell is the author of four novels—"Prodigals" (2002, nominated for the VCU First Novel Award), "Blood Kin" (2006, received the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel), "The Dark Corner" (2012), and "The House of the Lord" (2012)—and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, the Collegeville Center for Ecumenical Research and the Vaclav Havel fellowship in playwriting to the Prague Seminar. He has served as a craft class instructor at Breadloaf and on the faculty of the Appalachian Writers’ Conference. For the past three years, he has taught a fiction workshop at Lawtey Correctional Institute, a Level II prison in Raiford, Fla. His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a number of journals, including Still, Ellipsis, Rivendell, The New Delta Review, Appalachian Heritage, American Polymath, The South Carolina Review and Yemassee. In 2010, he received the Chaffin Award for contributions to Appalachian Literature. He will be the featured artist in the Winter 2012 issue of Appalachian Heritage. The issue will feature two excerpts from The Dark Corner as well as a critical appraisal of his previous work.
Education
- M.A.R., Religion and Literature, Yale Divinity School
- M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of South Carolina
- B.A., English, The Citadel
Research
- I am a novelist.
Courses
- Fiction workshops, introductory and advanced
Publications
- "The Dark Corner," "The House of the Lord," "Blood Kin," "Prodigals"
