Rachel Powers is the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center program coordinator at PEN America. Powers has interned at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Planned Parenthood, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is deeply involved in community organizing and mutual aid. Powers has a BA with honors in Creative Writing and Government from Colby College. She is a fiction writer from the Catskills and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Rachel Powers
Program Coordinator, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center
Articles by Rachel Powers
Friday October 6
Narges Mohammadi, The Iranian Writer Speaking Out From Behind Bars
Narges Mohammadi has been a target of Iranian authorities for more than 30 years. She was arrested twice at meetings of a political student group.
Thursday June 8
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Stella Nyanzi
My multiple identities empower me to fashion my writing into an effective weapon fighting against injustices meted out by holders of abusive power onto underprivileged groups in society.
Thursday May 11
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Dareen Tatour
“From the moment the soldiers entered my house and took me, I felt that poetry was waiting for me.”