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Born in Montreal, KERRY-LEE POWELL has lived in Australia, Antigua and the United Kingdom, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cardiff University and directed a literature promotion agency. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United Kingdom and North America, including The Spectator, the Boston Review and the Virago Writing Women series. In 2013, she won the Boston Review fiction contest, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for short fiction and the Alfred G Bailey manuscript prize.
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“Kerry Lee Powell writes with the voice of a prophet crying from the wilderness. She writes of liars and losers, frauds and impostors who dream of escape into extremity, escape from life’s artificiality. With a poet’s control over imagery, her painted tableaux explode into sudden shimmering violence.” (Carrie Snyder, author of Girl Runner)
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“Kerry Lee Powell writes with the voice of a prophet crying from the wilderness. She writes of liars and losers, frauds and impostors who dream of escape into extremity, escape from life’s artificiality. With a poet’s control over imagery, her painted tableaux explode into sudden shimmering violence.” (Carrie Snyder, author of Girl Runner)
“Harrowing, whip-smart, both lyrical and tough-as-nails, these stories pack a wallop. With her keen eye and wide-open heart, Powell has managed to capture the strange, malevolent undertow that burbles just beneath the surface of contemporary life. And lucky for us, it makes for a breathtaking read.” (Michael Christie, author of The Beggar's Garden and If I Fall, If I Die)
“An energetic and disturbing collection of stories. I loved the rush of reading it.” (Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap and Barracuda)
“These are beautiful stories. They will make you think and they will make you feel and they will always, always, reward your attention.” (Alexander MacLeod, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Light Lifting)
“A transcendent collection . . . . Within Powell’s 15 stories, it is impossible to pick a crown jewel. Each one feels like the favourite until the next.” (National Post)
“Masterful . . . . In several stories, characters mired in difficult situations look to the mystical to help them escape, and Powell’s delicacy in these stories is wonderfully successful.” (Winnipeg Free Press)
“Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia and observed in sharp, vivid prose.” (Nathan Englander, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank)
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- Publication date2016
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