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American novelist

Mark Powell (born 1976) is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, most recently The Late Rebellion and Hurricane Season.

A highly decorated author, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, as well as two Fulbright Fellowships. Educated at The Citadel, The University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School, Powell teaches in the English Department at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

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He repeatedly serves as the fiction workshop leader for the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop and the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. Powell's early work has established him in the southern Appalachian tradition^[1] alongside writers such as Pamela Duncan, Silas House and Ron Rash.

His recent fiction is more global in scope,^[2] in the vein of Robert Stone and Bob Shacochis.