Many story tellers are home bodies but not Geraldine. She loves pushing her car to the limit on the race track and long quiet hikes in the mountains. She has been a waitress, a bartender, an oyster shucker, and a bicycle messenger. During her college years she sold encyclopedias in the coal fields of West Virginia. After college she managed a couple of construction companies. She is an award winning ceramic artist and for a short time owned an art gallery. Now she and her partner operate an orchid nursery. Powell lives with her partner, five cats and a dog on the side of Signal Mountain near Chattanooga. She has spent much of her life in the mountains of Tennessee and southern Virginia and has an abiding affection for the southern Appalachians. She also loves mystery novels. So it's no surprise that her novels combines the two.
She brings this broad experience and an unusual sense of humor to her novels."