Physical Science by Tara Powell

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Physical Science

by Tara Powell

$14, paper

Tara Powell is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches courses in southern literature and poetry. She is the author of Physical Science (2010), a chapbook of poems from Finishing Line Press, and a book of literary scholarship called The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature (2012), from Louisiana State University Press. She co-edited Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways (2014) from the University Press of Mississippi. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in a variety of journals and newspapers. Her ongoing research projects include New South verse memoirs, Italian-Americans in Southern Appalachia, and portrayals of the South in popular literature and film. She holds a Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American and Southern Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and grew up in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.