First Sunday Prose

The Writers Guild is thrilled to host award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell for our December 6 First Sunday Prose Reading Series.  PLEASE NOTE:  NEW LOCATION: REDBUD BOOKS at 408 W. Kirkwood Avenue.  Nate will read a portion of his newest work, Diana, a prequel to his last graphic novel, Fall Through. Images from Diana  will be up on screen. Audience members may purchase his books at this event.  Open mic to follow.

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.

His work includes the new graphic novel Diana, a prequel to his last book, Fall Through, and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis’ March trilogy and its follow-up Run, viral comics essay About Face, and graphic novels Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole. He has published nonfiction comics and written for The Washington Post, The Nib, Popula, Booklist, CNN, and The Weather Channel.

Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and the CXC Transformative Work Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Free Speech TV.

From 1992 to 2010, he performed and toured in multiple underground punk bands including Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, and managed DIY label Harlan Records.