Tierney S. Powell is Assistant Professor of English at Grand Valley State University. Her current book project argues that contemporary literature, television, and film theorize and imagine alternatives to logistics, the spatial practice and organizational logic of ecocidal global commodity chains. This project extends from research and teaching specializing in multiethnic literature, critical infrastructure and urban studies, environmental criticism, and spatial theory. Her work appears in Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History (University Press of Mississippi 2025).