Chris Power
{{Short description|British writer and literary critic (born 1975)}}
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Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian.
Biography
Power was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire.{{Cite web |date=2021-04-03 |title=Chris Power: 'You burn reality to fuel the fiction' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/03/chris-power-you-burn-reality-to-fuel-the-fiction |first=Anthony|last=Cummins|access-date=2022-11-29 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998.https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisjohnpower {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}
He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director.
Power wrote a regular column for The Guardian about the short story as a literary form between 2007 and 2020.{{cite news |last1=Hulburt |first1=Ann |title=Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/chris-power-mothers/576415/ |work=The Atlantic |date=January 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Rosen |first1=Christine |title=Mothers: Stories (brief review) |work=Commentary |date=May 2019}} [https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/abriefsurveyoftheshortstory] He has also presented the BBC Radio Four programme Open Book.
He has cited Roberto Bolaño and Denis Johnson as literary influences.
Power's first book of short stories, Mothers: Stories, was published in 2018 in Britain and in 2019 in the United States.{{cite news |last1=McAloon |first1=Jonathan |title=Mothers (book review) |work=The Spectator |date=30 June 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Thomas-Kennedy |first1=Jackie |title=Review: 'Mothers: Stories,' by Chris Power |url=http://www.startribune.com/review-mothers-stories-by-chris-power/504825152/ |access-date=8 May 2019 |work=Star-Tribune |date=25 January 2019}} His first novel, A Lonely Man, was published in April 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7874/s/9780571341214-a-lonely-man/|title = A Lonely Man|publisher=Faber}}