Marilyn Powell, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Marilyn Powell received her B.A. at the University of Toronto and completed her Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College before returning to her hometown of Toronto to begin a career as a writer and broadcaster with the CBC and TV Ontario. Among many other programs, she has hosted and produced a national weekly book hour for the CBC Radio’s Stereo Morning. She is a frequent contributor to the book pages of the Globe and Mail. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum, Arts Manitoba, and Books in Canada. Her short stories have been published in Toronto Short Stories (1978) and Aurora III (1980).

Powell has received numerous honours including two Gabriel Awards for Excellence and Creativity in Radio, two Armstrong Awards (from the U.S. National Radio Broadcasters’ Association), a national award for Best Radio Program of the Year, and a B’nai Brith League of Human Rights award for the radio series “Art and the Holocaust.” She is currently a producer with the CBC Radio’s documentary program Ideas.

Contributor to:
Why are you telling me this? (essay)