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J.L. Powers
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http://www.goodreads.com/jlpowers
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female |
| place of birth |
The United States |
| website |
http://www.jlpowers.net |
| genre |
Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
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about this author
The daughter of a geologist and a journalist, J.L. Powers spent much of her childhood camping and searching for fossils in the American West, and considers herself a true “desert rat.” She grew up on the U.S.-Mexico Border in El Paso, Texas.
She’s taught African history and freshman composition, research and argument at the University of Texas at El Paso, Stanford University, and Skyline College. Jessica is semi-proficient in three languages–Spanish, Portuguese, and Zulu–and now sometimes answers in Zulu when spoken to in Spanish. Though she now lives in California, where she just finished a Master’s Degree in African History at Stanford University, she will always consider El Paso, Texas “home.”
Cinco Puntos Press released her young adult novel "This Thing Called the Future" in May 2011. Knopf released her young adult novel, "The Confessional," in July 2007. A frequent contributor to New Pages, she is currently at work on other projects, including a novel that explores youth homelessness, teen pregnancy, and the outer edge of religious fundamentalism. Partly because of her latest project, Jessica volunteers at Larkin Street Youth Services, a San Francisco organization that serves homeless youth.
In 2008, Powers founded Catalyst Book Press, a small literary press that publishes 2-3 nonfiction books each year. The closest thing she has to a hobby is searching out ghost towns in northern California and attending as many live reggae concerts as is affordable. She travels to as many different parts of the world as she possibly can. She has a husband, a son, and two weimereners, and can’t imagine her life without them.
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