My Work

Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poems, including ATOMIZER (LSU Press, 2020), which The Boston Globe called  "confident poems, ones that disrupt and magnify our relationship with one way in which we sense the world."

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.  Her novel, Concerning the Holy Ghost's Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues, was published in 2019 in the U.K. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic and American Poetry Review. Past work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Colorado Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, Forklift, Ohio, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Seneca Review, Ploughshares, Plume, West Branch, and elsewhere.
Powell is Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of Green Mountains Review, and Professor and Chair of Writing and Literature at Northern Vermont University-Johnson. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.In 2020, she was Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Oregon State University-Bend MFA program. 

Powell has lived in Vermont since 1989, first in Bethel and now in Underhill. She was born on Lenox Hill in NYC, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the University of New Hampshire.

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