So happy to meet you.

Hi everyone, and welcome! My name is Cornelia Powers, and I am a Washington, D.C.-based writer whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, TIME, New York Magazine, Literary Hub, The Washington Post, and more.

After graduating Princeton with a degree in public policy and international relations, I worked as a researcher for the ONE Campaign, co-authoring the organization’s annual World AIDS Day Report, and later as a policy and program 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. And soon, I started working on a book about Bessie Anthony — the winner of the 1903 women’s national championship for golf and the grandmother my grandmother never knew. Over the past eight years, I have worked to unearth the healing magic of Bessie’s story, sculpting out of my family’s archive an epic about love, womanhood, and family and a profoundly personal love letter to the ancestors I feel blessed to call my own.

In the spring of 2019, I married my wonderful husband, Tim. When we’re not playing with our kids or our eighty-pound Golden Retriever, Birdie, we enjoy watching movies, traveling, running, hiking, and — of course — playing golf. I love gardening, theology, classic movies, Bravo, indie bookstores, and small New England towns and am a sucker for all things related to Audrey Hepburn, Jane Austen, and C.S. Lewis.

Other than here, you can find me at Instagram (@corneliapowerswrites) as well as my new Substack, LINKAGE (for past issues of my newsletter prior to Fall 2024, please click here).