Garry Craig Powell

Garry Craig Powell was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History, Archaeology and Anthropology, and at Durham University, where he did an MA in Applied Linguistics. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (major: fiction) from the University of Arizona.
He taught English, in Spain, Poland, and Portugal, where he started and ran his own language school, and in the UAE, which became the setting for his linked collection of stories, Stoning the Devil (Skylight Press, 2012). This was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award in 2013, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in the same year.
From 2004 until 2017 Powell taught Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. His stories appeared in many magazines, such as McSweeney’s, Nimrod, New Orleans Review, and Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (ed. Jeffery Deaver). He received fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council, the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the Arvon Foundation in the UK.