A recovering lawyer, Gary V. Powell is currently a stay-at-home dad, cook, housekeeper, and handy-man. His work can be read online and/or in print in/at many literary journals including the Thomas Wolfe Review, Carvezine, Fiction Southeast, Atticus Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Best New Writing 2015 (Eric Hoffer Foundation-Hopewell Publishing), and Pisgah Review. His first novel, Lucky Bastard, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing (2012).