Meet Haley Powell

Haley Powell is the Southern Region Student Representative for Sigma Tau Delta. She has served as the President and Community Service Chair at the University of Kentucky’s Sigma Tau Delta chapter. She is currently a senior at UK studying English, political science, and history, and will be pursuing a JD after graduation. She enjoys traveling, reading, playing with her cats, sending snail mail, buying too many house plants, and listening to music.

1. My favorite movie is Howl’s Moving Castle.
   
2. I never leave the house without a bookmark.
3. If I had to eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be spaghetti!
4. Growing up, I was sure I would be an author.
5. I know every word to to the song “Left & Right” by Seventeen.
   
6. The best gift I’ve ever received was my adopted cat, Pumpkin.
7. My nickname in high school was my full name.
8. If you find me in the kitchen, I’m typically whipping up pasta of some sort.
9. I’m both a reader and a writer.
10. The best paper title I ever created was “Murder, He Wrote: Performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
11. The literary place I’d most like to visit is Avonlea from Anne of Green Gables.
12. My dream job is to be an attorney.
13. An author I truly admire is Jane Austen.
14. My go-to children’s book is The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn (which my mom would read to me before every first day of school).
15. The destination at the top of my travel bucket list is France.
16. My favorite part of being an English major is getting to know people who understand the power of language and will laugh at my book jokes.
17. The last book I read was The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
18. My favorite book is The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.
19. My favorite bookstore is Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY.
20. In 10 years, I’m betting that the big trend in literature will be somewhat nostalgic musings on how social media “used to be”.
21. My first job was making sandwiches at Jersey Mike’s Subs.
22. The last book I bought was Atonement by Ian McEwan, and I have read it.
23. The celebrity I’d most like to spend a day with is Elizabeth Warren.
24. If I could move anywhere in the world, I’d live in Paris, France.
25. I’m a Hufflepuff