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ORO VALLEY, AZ – June 16, 2025 – Oro Valley author and poet Elaine A. Powers recently completed a book tour on Guam, where she visited twenty schools to share her book, Guam: Return of the Songs. The tour, which

We are proud to announce the winner of the Judy Goddard Award for 2025, Elaine A. Powers. A retired biologist, actor and singer, and a conservationist with a passion for reptiles, Elaine is the author of over 25 science-based children’s

With every new year comes the Library’s perennially-popular Southwest Books of the Year. The 2025 edition marks the 48th year of publication. It is now available online (books for adults and books for children and young adults), and at libraries and local bookstores.   Elaine A. Power’s recent

Science-loving author Elaine Powers is this summer’s writer in residence at the Pima County Public Library. Powers will be hosting one-on-one meetings with community members as well as three workshops through July 29, which will cover self-publishing, writing about the

Watch Elaine in her Arizona Illustrated feature video as she talks about passionately spreading science education through her many rescued animals and whimsical rhymes in her storytelling.

Elaine A. Powers and her recently released bilingual book, Guam: Return of the Songs, was featured in Arizona Daily Star on Sunday, December 4, 2022. This is her 27th picture book and first to be presented both in English and