Kevin PowersKevin Powers is the author of a collection of poetry and two novels, including The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. He graduated from Virginia Commonwalth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar. Read More Read Less