Powers, Kevin

found: The yellow birds, 2012:ECIP t.p. (Kevin Powers) data view (1st novel; joined the army at the age of 17, later serving a year as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq in 2004 and 2005; after his honorable discharge, he enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in English; currently a Michener Fellow in Poetry at the University of Texas, Austin, where he will receive his M.F.A. in 2012)

found: Letter composed during a lull in the fighting, 2014:t.p. (Kevin Powers) jkt. (b. and raised in Richmond, VA; BA, from VCU; MFA from Univ. of Texas, Austin; served in the US Army in Iraq (2004-2005); his novel, The yellow birds, was a National Book Award finalist, a PEN/Hemingway Award winner, and a Guardian First Book Award winner)