m. mick powell
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m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in RHINO, Muzzle, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. mick is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct in Bay Path University’s MFA in creative nonfiction writing program. A former Tin House Resident, she enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.
Books by m. mick powell
A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom.