Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States in her late teens. She received her bachelor's degree at Wellesley, and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, where she studied with Michael Ondaatje, among others.
Novels
Me Dying Trial (1993)
The Pagoda (1998)
A Small Gathering of Bones (2003)
The Fullness of Everything (2009)
The Pagoda (1998)
A Small Gathering of Bones (2003)
The Fullness of Everything (2009)
Patricia Powell recommends
Spell Heaven (2022)
Toni Mirosevich
"I love these stories - the delicious humor, the unvarnished exchanges, the characters in all of their wonderful, painful complexity, and Toni's gift for finding meaning in the most ordinary moments of a life. Spell Heaven triumphs again and again."
Boundaries (2011)
Elizabeth Nunez
"Elizabeth Nunez has written a book so searing, so astute, so immediate to our times, it resurrects; it disrupts inevitably; it startles complacency; and over and over again, it invites healing to flourish."
Books containing stories by Patricia Powell
