Welcome to LINKAGE — I’m so happy you’re here.
My name is Cornelia Powers, and I am a writer whose work has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, TIME, New York Magazine, Literary Hub, The Washington Post, Refinery 29, Electric Literature, Image Journal, the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Comment, and several other publications. You can find a few of my favorite pieces here, here, and here.
After college, I worked in public health, first as a researcher for the ONE Campaign and then as a policy analyst for Medicaid. But when my beloved grandmother passed away suddenly in 2016, my world turned completely upside down. As a way to remain close to her, I stopped drinking and started writing, desperate for a way to better understand life and the beautiful people who live it. Soon, I started working on a book about Bessie Anthony – the winner of the 1903 women’s national golf championship and the grandmother my grandmother never knew. Over the past eight years, I have worked to uncover the healing magic of Bessie’s untold story, sculpting out of my family’s archive an epic of love, womanhood, and family and a deeply personal love letter to the grandmothers I feel blessed to call my own.
As I enter an exciting new stage of the book writing process, I wanted to create LINKAGE as a home for my writing on family, motherhood, sobriety, books, movies, fashion, interior design, and (of course!) the ancient game of golf. I also wanted to offer an inside glimpse into the publishing process, lifting the curtain on what it’s been like to research and write a book, develop a proposal, query agents, and more.
Most of all, I wanted to create a community of fellow travelers who are in search of “the ancient paths.” Here is a gathering place for like-minded souls on a quest to find the light in the shadow, the tenderness in the quiet, and the magic in the mundane. Here is a home for kindred spirits who believe that angels are not as far away as we might think.
“We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women,” wrote Virginia Woolf. It is my hope that LINKAGE will be a place to do just that. The years go on, and still we keep writing our beautiful, never-ending story, linking us not only to the mothers and grandmothers before us, but also to the truest parts of ourselves.
What you can expect
LINKAGE is a free, all-access newsletter. By subscribing, you can expect regular updates on my book, reading recommendations, illuminating Q&A’s, and heartfelt essays on family, friendship, books, religion, motherhood, sobriety, golf, and more. I am aiming to post 3-4 times per month and will conclude each month with a reading review, featuring must-read books and articles that will make you smile, reexamine, think, and feel.
More about me
When I am not writing, I work as the Marketing Director and COO for Evans & Sheldon – a multi-line interiors firm based in Georgetown. I am also an active member of my church – a small Episcopal community in the heart of D.C. – where I lead a monthly book club with the amazing Jordan Rippy. Every month, you can follow along with our club by reading my monthly reading review.
In the spring of 2019, I married my wonderful husband, Tim. When we’re not playing with our one-year-old old daughter Kathleen (“Kit”) or our eighty-pound Golden Retriever, Birdie, we enjoy hitting the links, traveling, running, hiking, and watching movies (and Bravo!). I love gardening, theology, classic movies, indie bookstores, and New England towns and am a sucker for all things related to Audrey Hepburn, Jane Austen, and C.S. Lewis.
How to support
LINKAGE is a free newsletter, but I would be eternally grateful if you would share it with a friend and/or follow me on Instagram here.
Finally, I am always on the hunt for things to write about! If you have story ideas, please feel free to message me here or email me at hello@corneliapowers.com with “story idea” in the subject line, and I’ll be sure to get back to you as soon as I can.
“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it.”
