Roxie Grant Powell was born in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He grew up in the high Sangre de Christo Mountains of Southern Colorado. He earned his MA at Johns Hopkins Unive...view moreRoxie Grant Powell was born in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He grew up in the high Sangre de Christo Mountains of Southern Colorado. He earned his MA at Johns Hopkins University and eventually taught at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland. Auerhahn Press of San Francisco first published his poetry in 1963.view less