SJ POWELL
SJ Powell is a speculative fiction writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work is concerned with non-human being(s), animal others, and worlds that are not our own. They received a BA in English, Africana Studies, and Environmental Studies from Williams College. They are a member of the hotbed artist collective.
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SJ Powell is a speculative writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Encompassing science-fiction, fantasy, and horror, their fiction investigates the cultivation of personhood in the dark by fugitives from humanity. Their stories sow unruly conceptions of being, materality, and affinity. How can fiction help us enter the greater-than-human world? They are a suburban naturalist and a bird lover.
Their fiction has been published in FIYAH Lit Magazine, Bunker Projects Review, Fusion Fragment, Atlas and Alice Magazine, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. They are a 2022 Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellow, a 2023 Writer-in-Residence at the City Books Writers-in-Residence Program, and a summer 2023 Fellow at the Hurtson/Wright Foundation Writers Weekend Retreat. SJ has been a resident at the Bischoff Inn and the Wassaic Project.
SJ is represented by Jessica Friedman at Sterling Lord Listeric.