About Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran. Powers's first novel The Yellow Birds, which drew on his experiences in the Iraq War, garnered a lucrative advance from publisher Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. Powers is a poet first, so the book is spare, incredibly precise, unimproveable. After his honorable discharge, Powers enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in English.
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