Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers (born 1980) is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
Powers was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the son of a factory worker and a postman, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen. He attended James River High School.

Six years later, in 2004, he served a one-year tour in Iraq as a machine gunner
assigned to an engineer unit. Powers served in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq, from February 2004 to March 2005. After his honorable discharge, Powers enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry.

Books in order of publication: The

Yellow Birds: a novel, New York: Little, Brown 2012. 

Letters Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.A

Shout in the Ruins: a novel, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 

A Line in the Sand, Little, Brown and Company, 2023.