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 usually 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 September 2018 – 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 reads a lot). Her favorite color is red.
She currently lives in northern Indiana in a creaky old house, that is unfortunately not haunted, with her husband and their two black kitties, Nyxie and Shuri.
Short bio, without all the detailed background stuff
Pamela writes weird little (and big) stories during those few moments of clarity between her day job as a web developer and the rest of her life. This is challenging, but it keeps her sane. She has a background in Evolutionary Anthropology and Theater and a mountain of debt to prove it. Her work has been published in Not One of Us (“Did You Pay for This Room,” is listed in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror #17 Recommendations), This Exquisite Topology (Angry Gable Press), and Horrific Scribes. She lives in Northern Indiana in a creaky old house with her husband and their two black kitties, Nyxie and Shuri.