Chris Power

Chris Power is the author of a collection of short stories, Mothers (Faber & Faber, 2018), which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio prize and shortlisted for the 2019 Edge Hill Short Story prize, and a novel, A Lonely Man (Faber & Faber, 2021), a Washington Post, New Statesman and Metro book of the year. He is currently working on a novel set in the world of British theatre in the nineties.

Chris is a regular presenter of Open Book on BBC Radio 4, the station’s flagship books programme. He also often interviews authors at live events, including at Hay and the Edinburgh Book Festival. His interviewees have included Karl Ove Knausgaard, Margaret Atwood, Percival Everett, Walter Mosley, Ian McEwan and Bret Easton Ellis. He reviews books for the London Review of Books, the Sunday Times and The Guardian, and has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Statesman. His fiction has been published in Granta, Five Dials, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and The White Review, and has been broadcast on Radio 4. He also teaches on the fiction MA at Goldsmiths University and has mentored various writers through Word Factory, First Story, and other organisations.

In previous lives Chris worked as a bookseller, a letter-opener for CBeebies, and a sub-editor. For nearly a decade he worked as a copywriter, and latterly a creative director, at a central London ad agency. He lives in east London with his wife, children, and two cats.