Writing Life
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
MA, Theater, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
BA, English and Drama, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
Published Literary Journal and Newspaper Essays
"Time for Wyoming Horses." WREN (February 2024): 22-23.
“In An Envelope.” New York Times. Online (NYtimes.com). Style Section: “Tiny Love Stories”. 04 April 2021.
“Leaning into the Rocks.” Barnstorm Literary Journal. Nonfiction. 16 November 2018. Web.
“Toward Eternity.” Under the Sun Online. Issue 3. June 2015. Web.
“Southern Delicacies.” Weave 10 (2014): 47-52.
“Thou Shalt Have No Strange Gods Before Me.” Unruly CatholicWomen Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism. Ed. Jeana Rosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013. 105-113.
Unruly Catholic Women Writers. Pam pictured third from left.
“Ocean Mother.” The Emerson Review 39 (2010): 26-29.
“Losing Ground.” Lumina IX (2010): 11-19.
“Dancing Lessons.” Saw Palm 4 (Spring 2010): 117-125.
“Horse Lessons.” trailBLAZER 31:9 (October 2009): 40-42.
“Three Note Song.” South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art 11 (2009): 95-96.
“This Above All.” Vermont Literary Review 10:1 (Summer/Fall 2008): 59-65.
“Wyoming Girl.” North American Review 291:6 (Nov/Dec. 2006): 3-7.
Chapter in Book (non-peer reviewed):
“Women’s Center.” Laramie: Gem City of the Plains. Ed. Mary Kay Mason. Dallas, TX: Curtis Media Corp., 1986. 159-160.
Writing Awards and Honors
Honorable Mention, Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships, 2024
First Place, Wyoming Writers Inc. Contest, 2024
Honorable Mention, Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award, Wyoming Arts Council, 2023.
Honorable Mention, Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award, Wyoming Arts Council, 2022
Published Essay nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2015
Creative Writing in Nonfiction Fellowship, Wyoming Arts Council, 2011
Judge, Wyoming Writers, Inc. Creative Nonfiction Competition, 2011
Honorable Mention, Frank Anthony Nonfiction Award, New England Writers, 2007
Honorable Mention Creative Writing Contest, Wyoming Writers, 1996
Public Readings of my Works
NAWCHE Making Connections XI – The Welcome Table: Interfaith Women in Dialogue in Catholic Higher Education, Seattle University, Seattle, WY, 2014
Wyoming Writing Project for Teachers & Wyowriters, Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, 2012
UW English Department Lecturers Reading, Night Heron, Laramie, WY, 2011
Equality State Book Festival, Casper, WY, 2010
Graduate Symposium, University of Wyoming, 2007
Teaching, Creative Writing
Creative Writing-Nonfiction, University of Wyoming
Professional Affiliations
Women Writing the West
Wyoming Writers Inc.
Memberships
Women Writing the West
Wyoming Writers, Inc.
Prairie Sage Writers, Laramie, Wyoming
A meadowlark, one of my favorite birds, singing on a wooden fence in rural-Wyoming. Photo by Robert Galbreath.