Chris Power

Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian.

Biography Power was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire. He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998.

He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director. He has also presented the BBC Radio Four programme Open Book.

He has cited Roberto Bolaño and Denis Johnson as literary influences. His first novel, A Lonely Man, was published in April 2021.

Power is married with two daughters and lives in London.