Ann K Powers was born on February 4,1964 and is an American writer and popular music critic.
20 Facts About Ann Powers
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Ann Powers is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously chief pop critic.
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Ann Powers has written for other publications, such as The New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice.
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Ann Powers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and a Master of Arts degree in American literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ann Powers' professional writing career began in 1980 while she was still in high school, when she started writing for the Seattle music weekly magazine The Rocket.
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From 1997 to 2001, Ann Powers was the pop critic at The New York Times.
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From 2001 until May 2005, Ann Powers was senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, which later became Museum of Pop Culture.
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Ann Powers remained in this position until March 2011, when she departed for NPR, though she continued as a contributor for the Los Angeles Times afterward.
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Since 2011, Ann Powers has been NPR Music's critic and correspondent.
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Ann Powers has written for The Record, NPR's blog about finding, making, buying, sharing, and talking about music, since April 2011.
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In 2017, Ann Powers spearheaded a multi-platform project at NPR called Turning the Tables.
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Ann Powers is the Nashville correspondent for World Cafe, regularly recording sessions with local and regional Southern musicians.
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Ann Powers has written about topics such as religion, feminism, and film.
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Ann Powers co-edited the 1995 anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap, and was the guest editor of the Da Capo Press Best Music Writing 2010.
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In 2000, Ann Powers published the memoir Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America.
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The book focuses on Ann Powers' time living in Seattle, San Francisco, and Brooklyn.
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In 2005, Ann Powers co-wrote the book Piece by Piece with musician Tori Amos.
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Ann Powers was in the film The Punk Singer as an interviewee discussing the influence of Kathleen Hanna on punk music.
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Ann Powers appeared documentaries The Gits and Undeniably Donnie in addition the Behind the Music Remastered episode on Heart.
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Ann Powers is married to Eric Weisbard, a music critic and professor of American studies at the University of Alabama.