Mercy Island: New and Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780986690921)

Ren (Katherine) Powell is a writer, poet, translator, and native Californian living on the west coast of Norway. She has published four full-length collections of poetry and eleven books of translations, and her poetry has been translated and published in six languages. Ren has a BA in Theater Arts and received her doctorate in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in England in January, 2011. She has taught theater and drama at a performing arts school for ten years and her dramatic works have been performed in the U.S., Canada and Norway. The founding editor of the online literary journals Protest Poems.org and Babel Fruit: Writing Under the Influence, Ren also represented Norway on the International PEN Women Writers' Committee, and helped establish the International Cities of Refuge Network in Europe.