Diana Powell

Spring 2017 Session

Diana Powell, since being laid off in 2002 from her copy editing and writing job at the main daily newspaper in Memphis, has been a union administrator, a keyboard player in an all-woman rock band, an AmeriCorps reading tutor, a candy-factory worker, a theater actress, a grocery cashier, a movie cinema popcorn-slinger, a youth counselor, and a pet-sitter. She's hoping to add “fiction writer” to the list. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in philosophy from The University of Memphis and has lived north of Seattle since 2005.

Diana Powell worked with the writer Laura Valeri.