SHORT BIO (see Garry's Pilgrimage)
Born and
educated in England, Garry Craig Powell is a fiction writer and professor of
Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. A recipient of
fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and the Writers' Colony at Dairy
Hollow, he has completed a novel, The Gulf, parts of which have been published
in national magazines (see Publications), and a novella, Villareal.
Set in the
United Arab Emirates, this book portrays the numerous gulfs that exist
between Arabs and westerners, and men and women, in the post-9/11
Middle East. Meet Colin, a professor of literature at a women's university, and
his Palestinian wife, Fayruz, who suffers from PTSD; Badria and Alia, two of
Colin's Emirati students, victims of their own society; and Kamila, a Polish actress
turned prostitute. 
It is 1978, and Tristan, a
young aspiring painter, goes to the medieval city of Villareal in Spain, where
he falls in love with Racquel, a self-proclaimed aristocrat and
revolutionary. But all is not as it seems. In the course of a winter, the
romantic Englishman discovers not only that Racquel has been deceiving
him, but also that he has deceived her and indeed himself, and that reality is
far more complex than he had imagined.
Copyright © 2007 Garry Craig Powell.