Ann Powers

Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. Throughout a long career she has worked at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and many other publications. A former curator at Seattle's Museum of Popular Music, she is the author of four books, most recently Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (2024). With Evelyn McDonnell, she edited the classic anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop (1995). Her essays have been widely anthologized and she has also written for television, radio and podcasts. In 2017 she co-founded the award-winning NPR series Turning the Tables, which shed light on marginalized, underestimated and forgotten voices in popular music. She lives with her family in Nashville.