Elizabeth Powell was born in New York City and received a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College. She has taught at Goddard College and at the University of Vermont and has also worked as a journalist and congressional aide. In 1999 she received a Vermont Council on the Arts Grant in poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Sonora Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her short fiction has appeared in The Black Warrior Review. Ms. Powell lives in Vermont.