Editing Tim Powers (section)

==Life and career==

Powers was born in [[Buffalo, New York]], but has lived in California since 1959.<ref name="ignatiusinsight.com">{{Cite web|title=The Powers of Fantastic Fiction {{!}} An IgnatiusInsight.com Interview with Tim Powers {{!}} September 7, 2005|url=http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/tpowers_intvw_sept05.asp|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.ignatiusinsight.com}} https://web.archive.org/web/20060518042225/http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/tpowers_intvw_sept05.asp</ref> Powers is a [[Catholic]]. He studied [[English literature|English Literature]] at [[California State University, Fullerton|Cal State Fullerton]], and earned his [[Bachelor's degree|B.A.]] in 1976.<ref name=Begovich2012>{{cite web |url=http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/art/Begovich%202011-12/2012_Steampunk.html |title=Welcome to the College of the Arts at California State University, Fullerton |access-date=2015-04-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203104348/http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/art/Begovich%202011-12/2012_Steampunk.html |archive-date=2016-02-03 }}</ref>  It was there that he first met [[James Blaylock]] and [[K. W. Jeter]], both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators; the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "[[steampunk]]s"<ref>''Nova Express'', Volume 6, Number 1, "An Interview with Tim Powers", p. 9.</ref> in contrast to the prevailing [[cyberpunk]] genre of the 1980s. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet [[William Ashbless]] while they were at Cal State Fullerton.<ref name="Titan2010">{{Cite web|last=Worden|first=Tim|title=CSUF alumni inspire art exhibit|url=https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/csuf-alumni-inspire-art-exhibit/article_fc5d247f-eaea-5a04-8190-9855cd3bfc6a.html|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Daily Titan|date=April 9, 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

Another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer [[Philip K. Dick]];<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-06-03|title=Tim Powers: 'I don't have to make anything up'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/03/tim-powers-i-dont-have-to-make-anything-up|access-date=2021-09-14|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> the character named "David" in Dick's novel ''[[VALIS]]'' is based on Powers. When ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'' was retitled ''[[Blade Runner]]'' to tie-in with the movie based on the novel, Dick dedicated it to Tim and Serena Powers.

Powers' first major novel was ''[[The Drawing of the Dark]]'' (1979),<ref name="ignatiusinsight.com"/> but the novel that earned him wide praise was  ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'', which won the [[Philip K. Dick Award]], and has since been published in many other languages.

Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the [[Orange County High School of the Arts]] and California School of the Arts in San Gabriel Valley in the [[Creative Writing]] Conservatory, as well as [[Chapman University]], where Blaylock taught. He also taught part-time at the [[University of Redlands]].

Powers and his wife, Serena Batsford Powers, currently live in [[Muscoy, California]]. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the [[Clarion Writers Workshop|Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The SF Site: An Interview With Tim Powers|url=https://www.sfsite.com/09a/9tp.htm|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.sfsite.com}}</ref>