American novelist, Mark Powell, is the author of the the novel "The Dark Corner", and serves as what for the private four-year co-education liberal arts college, Lincoln Memorial University?
Mark Powell (novelist) Mark Powell (born 1976) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels "The Dark Corner", "Blood Kin" and "Prodigals" (all with the University of Tennessee Press), as well as "The Sheltering" (Story River Books, an imprint of University of South Carolina Press). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Educated at The Citadel, The University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School, Powell teaches in the English Department at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He repeatedly serves as the fiction workshop leader for the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop and the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. Powell's work has established him in the southern Appalachian tradition alongside writers such as Pamela Duncan, Silas House and Ron Rash.
Lindenwood University – Belleville Lindenwood University–Belleville, also known as Lindenwood Belleville, is a private, four-year liberal arts university. It is a full-fledged, standalone sister college of Lindenwood University with an enrollment around 2,300 students. Lindenwood Belleville is located in Belleville, Illinois and occupies the campus that was formerly Belleville West High School. Lindenwood Belleville offers a day program, as well as evening programs for working adults. Lindenwood Belleville offers both bachelor's and master's degree programs in biology, psychology, education and educational administration, business administration, human resource management, corporate communication, and criminal justice.