Gary V. Powell is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2023 deGroot Foundation Writer of Note, the winner of the 2022 Press 53/Prime Number short fiction prize, and a finalist or honorable mention for numerous other fiction awards. His work appears in or at the The North Carolina Literary Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, Carvezine, Ocotillo Review, Prime Number, Atticus Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Bull Men's Magazine and other literary magazines, reviews, and anthologies. His short story collection, Men in Love, was published by Main Street Rag, Spring 2026.
Mr. Powell is also a poet. His first chapbook, Super Blood Wolf Moon, won Kallisto Gaia Press’s 2020 Contemporary Poetry Prize. His second chapbook, Permafrost, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. His third chapbook, The Largesse of the Maidenhair Fern, was published by Main Street Rag, Spring 2026.
