Headshot of m. mick powell, a Black femme person with a septum ring smiling and wearing a velvet blue blouse against a gold backdrop

Photo by Deilyn Foster

m. mick powell is a poet, professor, digital collage artist. They are the author of Dead Girl Cameo (One World Books, 2025) and the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica and other circus tricks (Host Publications, 2023).

powell is an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut and faculty in Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing Program. They were a 2024 Torch Literary Arts Fellow and 2023 Tin House resident.

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    m. mick powell vs. Celebrity Culture

    On today’s episode of VS, Ajanae and Brittany interview m. mick powell about their forthcoming collection, Dead Girl Cameo (Penguin Random House).