Patricia Powell

Patricia Powell is a Jamaican award-winning literary fiction author who currently lives in the United States. Powell was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in 1966 and moved to the US with her parents when she was a teenager. In the United States, she went to Wellesley College from where she got her bachelor’s in English. She would later attend Brown University and graduated with an MFA in fiction learning under Michael Ondaatje. She published her first novel “Me Dying Trial” in 1993 and has since then published three other novels that include “The Pagoda,” “A Small Gathering of Bones” and “The Fullness of Everything.” Powell has been a fiction professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. She is currently at Mills College where she is an associate professor of English.