Mark Powell (novelist)

Mark Powell (born 1976) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels Blood Kin and Prodigals (University of Tennessee Press 2006 and 2002), and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. He was educated at The Citadel, The University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School. He teaches in the English Department at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. He repeatedly serves as the fiction workshop leader for the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop and the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. Powell's work marks him as an emerging writer with interests in the Appalachian region but with a far wider appeal, similar to other writers like Pamela Duncan, Silas House, Maurice Manning and Ron Rash.