Marian Powell

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. Began scribbling bad poetry and stories at an early age. I’m happy to say I published my first story at age 14 and paid $5 by American Girl Magazine. A few decades passed before I published again. In the meantime, I went to college and then in the early 70s did some 60s things like hitchhiking across Europe, working as a volunteer on a kibbutz in Israel, and then upon returning to the USA, working as a waitress at the Grand Canyon and picking crops in Oregon, before settling down a bit. I eventually earned two Masters degrees and in recent years have focused on writing.

I now have a number of online book reviews, Days Past features about Prescott, AZ history with the Prescott Daily Courier, and a story, “Neither Cain Nor Abel”, in an anthology edited by Ahmed A. Khan (Whortleberry Press, March 2007), and another, “Categorical Imperative”, in the anthology, Sci-Fi Waxes Philosophical (edited by Ahmed Khan, ZC Books, 2008). Recently I published another sci-fi story in the anthology It Was a Dark and Stormy Halloween (Whortleberry Press, 2009). Keep your eye out for the clever sequel to the story in a holiday anthology, Christmas in Outer Space. Next goal, the novel!