Shantell Powell
BIO
Biography

Shantell (Shan) Powell is a two-spirit author, artist, and swamp hag who grew up in an apocalyptic cult while living off the land.  Shan is the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellow for 2023, a fellow for the Roots Wounds Words Winter Retreat, and is a 2022graduate of the Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and the LET(s) Lead Academy at Yale University. She has a BA in Classics, English drama, and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick, and studied art and design at Conestoga College and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. Her writing is in Augur, Cloud Lake Literary Journal, Feminist Studies Journal, Prairie Fire, Yellow Medicine Journal, and more. Her visual art has been shown in the National Textile Museum, OCAD, and Porcelain Painters of Canada magazine. When she’s not writing or making things, she’s getting filthy in the woods.

ADDRESS
City: Kitchener, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Shantell Powell
LINKS
Links
Shan's Mastodon account
Nudity is Only Skin Deep
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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