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Sophie
Powell was born in 1980, and split her time growing up between
London and a sheep farm in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. She graduated
in Classics from Trinity College, Cambridge University, where
she was a junior scholar, and has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction)
from New York University, where she had a fellowship.
She
is the author of the novel The Mushroom Man (Putnam Penguin)
which received glowing reviews, including one from the New
York Times Book Review, and which has been translated into
several languages. She has also published short stories and creative
nonfiction. Most recently, she wrote the personal essay "Happily
Ever After" for the anthology Behind The Bedroom Door
forthcoming with Bantam in '08. Fellow contributors include
Susan Cheever, Fay Weldon, Lauren Slater, and Hope Edelman. She
is currently working on a new novel, Into the Lake, as
well as a childrens book.
Sophie
lives in Boston with her husband, Christian, where she teaches
creative writing at Boston College. Previously she has taught
at New York University, Georgetown University, George Washington
University and with the Lesley Seminars. She is also assistant
director of Abroad
Writers Conferences.
Sophie
is represented by Faye Bender at the Faye
Bender Literary Agency in New York.
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