Karen powell
Agent: Sian Ellis-Martin
Biography: Karen grew up in Rochester, Kent. She left school at sixteen but returned to education in her mid-twenties, reading English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Karen lives with her family in York and works at York Minster Fund, a charity which raises money for the conservation and restoration of York Minster.
Her novel, THE RIVER WITHIN, has been published by Europa in the USA and UK (2020) and Edizioni E/O in Italy. The novel has been described as ‘Consistently elegant and absorbing, THE RIVER WITHIN is a supremely accomplished first work… This is a novel whose shimmering surface conceals hidden depths.’ – Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Karen Powell’s new novel, FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS, was published by Europa in 2023 and was shortlisted for the inaugural Nero Book Award for Fiction.