Kay Powell

Kay Powell was born in
Zambia and grew up in Rhodesia. In 1968 she went to university in the
UK and became a social worker. She returned to Rhodesia for a few years
in the 1970s, and her two daughters were born there. After a stint at
Faber & Faber in London, she returned to Zimbabwe in 1981, first
working for Macmillan, then co-founding Quest, a publisher of
non-fiction titles. Emigrating to England in 1988, Kay set up an agency
to provide publishing services to international development
organisations. In 2008, her book on the use of English in the workplace,
What Not To Write, was published by Talisman, Singapore, and became a
bestseller. Then a Wind Blew is Kay’s first novel. She lives near
Cambridge, UK, with her husband, who is also a novelist.