Arthur Powers went to Brazil in 1969 and lived there most his adult life. He and his wife, Brenda, spent seven years in the eastern Amazon, organizing subsistence farmers. They also lived in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo. Arthur is the recipient of A Fellowship in Fiction from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the 2012 Tuscany Novella Prize, the 2014 Catholic Arts & Letters Award, and numerous other literary honors. His poetry has appeared in America, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Dappled Things, Hiram Poetry Review, Roanoke Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sou'wester, Windhover, & many other magazines & anthologies.