Keenan Powell

Born in Roswell, New Mexico, several years after certain out-of-towners visited, Keenan Powell, the daughter of an Air Force pilot, grew up moving from base to base. The family ultimately settled in northern California where she obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University and a Juris Doctorate from McGeorge School of Law. One summer during law school, she visited a friend in Anchorage, Alaska. Upon stepping off the plane, she picked the next place to go. The day after graduation, she moved to Anchorage. Her first artistic endeavor was drawing, which led to illustrating the original Dungeons and Dragons (known as Original Dungeons and Dragons) when still in high school. A past winner of the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic grant, her publications include Criminal Law 101 in the June 2015 issue of The Writer magazine and several short stories. She is currently writing the legal column, Ipso Facto, for the Guppies’ newsletter, First Draft, and blogging with the Mysteristas. She still lives, and practices law, in Anchorage. When not writing or lawyering, she can be found riding her bike, hanging out with her Irish Wolfhound, studying the concert harp, or dinking around with oil paints.