Zach Powers
Zach Powers is the author of the novel The Migraine Diaries (JackLeg, 2026), the novel First Cosmic Velocity, and the story collection Gravity Changes, winner of the Boa Short Fiction Prize. His writing has been featured in American Short Fiction, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He serves as Executive & Artistic Director for The Writer’s Center and Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, he now lives in Arlington, Virginia.
“In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality,” Virginia Woolf writes. This is the mode of Zach Powers’s The Migraine Diaries. Powers understands the instant obliteration of a headache and, brilliantly, juxtaposes that with the loss of a friend. Should someone ever take up Woolf’s challenge and assemble a literary anthology of maladies, they should look first to Powers for his descriptions of the headache.