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).
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.