Patricia Powell

Patricia Powell (1966- ) is an American novelist, the author of "A Small Gathering of Bones", "Me Dying Trial" and "The Pagoda". Powell is the Martin Luther King Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at MIT. She formerly taught at Harvard University.

Powell received her bachelor's degree at Wellesley, and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, where she studied with Michael Ondaatje, among others.

She now teaches at London Metropolitan University.

Literary awards include:
* Pen New England Discovery Award,
* Bruce Rossley Literary Award,
* Ferro-Grumley Award for fiction,
* Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award,
* YWCA Tribute to Outstanding Women Award.

Bibliography
*"Me dying trial" (1993) ISBN 0435989359
*"The pagoda: a novel" (1998) ISBN 0679454896
*"A small gathering of bones" (2003) ISBN 0807083674