S H O R T B I O (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 is
completing a novel, The Gulf, parts of
which have been published
in
national magazines (see
Publications).
T H E G U L F (novel)
Set in the
United Arab Emirates, this
book portrays the numerous
gulfs that exist
between Arabs and
westerners, and men and women, in
post-9/11
Middle East. Meet Colin,
a professor of literature at a women's
university, and
his Palestinian wife,
Fairuz, 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.
Copyright © 2007 Garry Craig Powell.