About
Pamela has been writing off and on since she discovered the delicious drama of poetry at the age of twelve. She wrote many poems – some good, most dreadful – until she went to graduate school in her thirties to study anthropology, which temporarily squashed her ability to write without editing herself. (none of those poems are professionally published, but you may find one on this website now and then). During her academic adventures, which often took place in remote corners of a few African countries, she wrote a travel blog and published a few short travel pieces in online magazines, but mostly she wrote serious, heavily researched, factual, academic papers for the unforgiving eyes of her professors and colleagues. She was good at this, but occasionally, on the Coach bus to campus, she tried writing a short story. The deep-seated need for data and citations always overcame her imagination and none of the stories held her interest, until one year ago – four years after leaving academia. She started writing a story that she liked – and it was pure fiction.
Since then, she has continued writing, mostly in the mornings, sometimes in the evenings, when she is not working her day job as a reluctant web developer. In her spare time she cooks, gardens, embroiders, mends, does jigsaw puzzles, snuggles with cats, and reads.
She currently lives in northern Indiana in a rickety old house, that is unfortunately not haunted, with her husband and their two kitties, Nyxie and Shuri.
Short bio, without all the background stuff
Pamela spends her mornings writing, her days reluctantly developing websites, and her evenings cooking, reading, and revising. She has two master’s degrees in Anthropology, a subject that she still loves but will never pursue a career in. In her tiny bits of spare time, she helps her husband fix things in their rickety old house and tries to embroider. She plans to write weird little (and big) stories until her fingers are too arthritic to type. Then she will hire an assistant. She lives in northern Indiana with her husband and their two black kitties, Nyxie and Shuri.