Lynn Powell

Lynn Powell is the author of the nonfiction book Framing Innocence (2010) and three books of poetry: Season of the Second Thought (2017), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry; The Zones of Paradise (2003); and Old & New Testaments (1995), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award. She has been awarded a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. Powell teaches in the Creative Writing Program of Oberlin College, where she directs Oberlin WITS (the Writers-in-the-Schools program).