Kerry Lee Powell

Kerry Lee Powell
BornMontreal, Quebec
OccupationPoet, short story writer
NationalityCanadian
Period2010s–present
Notable worksInheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush

Kerry Lee Powell is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,[1] and a shortlisted nominee for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[2] and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,[3] in 2016.

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, she is currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick.[1] She has also published the poetry collections Inheritance and The Wreckage, and was a shortlisted Gerald Lampert Award finalist in 2015 for Inheritance.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kerry Lee Powell, Michael Helm among Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists". Winnipeg Free Press, September 21, 2016.
  2. ^ "Two debut novelists among this year's Writers' Trust nominees". The Globe and Mail, September 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Governor-General's Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Review: Kerry Lee Powell's Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush and Laura Trunkey's Double Dutch deliver the unexpected". The Globe and Mail, April 22, 2016.


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