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Pamela Uschuk graduated with honors with a MFA in Poetry and Fiction from the University of Montana. Called by THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW, “one of the most insightful and spirited poets today,” she is the author of four books of poems, the award-winning FINDING PEACHES IN THE DESERT (followed by a CD of the same title with musical accompaniment by Chameleon and Joy Harjo), ONE LEGGED DANCER, SCATTERED RISKS, and CRAZY LOVE (2010 American Book Award) published by Wings Press, San Antonio, and WITHOUT THE COMFORT OF STARS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (2011) from Sampark Press, New Delhi. Several chapbooks of her poems have appeared, including the award-winning WITHOUT BIRDS, WITHOUT FLOWERS, WITHOUT TREES (Flume Press Chapbook Award, 1990), BLOOD FLOWER, www.thedrunkenboat.com/uschuk.html and HEARTBEATS IN STONES (2005, Codhill Press, New York). SCATTERED RISKS was nominated by Wings Press for a Pulitzer Prize, and for the Zacharias Book Award by Ploughshares. PAM USCHUK'S GREATEST HITS (Pudding House Press) appeared in 2009. An independent film, "Healing in the Language of Trees," based on her poem of that title was released in 2010 by Wing & A Prayer Productions. Her new collection of poems, WILD IN THE PLAZA OF MEMORY, is due out in Spring 2012.
Uschuk’s work has appeared in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Parnassus Review, Agni Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Calyx, Hunger Mountain, and others. Among Uschuk’s literary prizes are the New Millenium Poetry Prize, Struga International Poetry Prize, for a theme poem, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council as well as awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, Iris, Ascent, Sandhills Review, and Amnesty International. Her nonfiction has been featured in such journals as Parabola, Terrain and Inside/Outside. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Czech, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Korean and Russian.
Pam has been a featured writer at The Sha'ar Poetry Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, The American Center in New Delhi, India,University of Pisa, at International Poetry Festivals in Malmo and University of Lund, Sweden and Struga, Macedonia, at the British School in Pisa, Italy, Split This Rock, Gemini Ink Writers Festival,Meacham Writers Conference, Book Marks Book Fair, Scandinavian Book Fair, Deep South Writers Conference, Tucson Festival of Books, Universities of Arizona, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Montana State, Arizona State, Colorado State & California State Universities, New York University, Juilliard, Hunter College, Vassar College, SUNY New Paltz, and numerous colleges and book stores. She is regularly a featured poet at the Prague Summer Programs.
She taught creative writing at Marist College, Pacific Lutheran University, Fort Lewis College, the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, Salem College and Greenhaven Maximum Security Prison for men in New York. Uschuk spent years teaching poetry in schools to Native American students on the Salish, Sioux, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead, Blackfeet, Crow, Tohono O’odham and Yaqui reservations in Montana and Arizona.
In Spring 2011, Pam was the John C. Hodges Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Uschuk’s work has appeared in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Parnassus Review, Agni Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Calyx, Hunger Mountain, and others. Among Uschuk’s literary prizes are the New Millenium Poetry Prize, Struga International Poetry Prize, for a theme poem, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council as well as awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, Iris, Ascent, Sandhills Review, and Amnesty International. Her nonfiction has been featured in such journals as Parabola, Terrain and Inside/Outside. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Czech, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Korean and Russian.
Pam has been a featured writer at The Sha'ar Poetry Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, The American Center in New Delhi, India,University of Pisa, at International Poetry Festivals in Malmo and University of Lund, Sweden and Struga, Macedonia, at the British School in Pisa, Italy, Split This Rock, Gemini Ink Writers Festival,Meacham Writers Conference, Book Marks Book Fair, Scandinavian Book Fair, Deep South Writers Conference, Tucson Festival of Books, Universities of Arizona, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Montana State, Arizona State, Colorado State & California State Universities, New York University, Juilliard, Hunter College, Vassar College, SUNY New Paltz, and numerous colleges and book stores. She is regularly a featured poet at the Prague Summer Programs.
She taught creative writing at Marist College, Pacific Lutheran University, Fort Lewis College, the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, Salem College and Greenhaven Maximum Security Prison for men in New York. Uschuk spent years teaching poetry in schools to Native American students on the Salish, Sioux, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead, Blackfeet, Crow, Tohono O’odham and Yaqui reservations in Montana and Arizona.
In Spring 2011, Pam was the John C. Hodges Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Pamela Uschuk teaches poetry, screen writing, and environmental literature at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She has been the Director of the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, where she was an Associate Professor of Creative Writing. Editor-in-Chief of CUTTHROAT, A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, she is The Director of the Southwest Writers Institute. She teaches poetry writing workshops for the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. Besides hiking, kayaking, making jewelry, playing native flute snorkeling and traveling, she is happiest when writing. She makes her home in the Rocky Mountains of SW Colorado outside of Durango and in Tucson, Arizona with the writer William Pitt Root, their wolfdog, Happy, Zazu and the queen of cats, Sadie.
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Pam's books & cd may be purchased through Amazon, Powell's Books, Wings Press (www.wingspress.com), in selected independent bookstores in the U.S. and are available on Kindle, Ebooks, IPad and others. TClick here to add text.
CRAZY LOVE, WINNER OF A 2010 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD
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Ci"life lived at the fever pitch of awareness..."ck Naomi Shihab Nye to dd text.
Pam's poem, "A Short History of Falling," was chosen for 2010 Best of the Web. Her poem,
"Shostakovich: Five Pieces" won the 2010 NEW MILLENIUM Poetry Award. Her book of poems, CRAZY LOVE won the 2010 American Book Award. Three poems won the 2011 winning writers War Poetry Contest
"Shostakovich: Five Pieces" won the 2010 NEW MILLENIUM Poetry Award. Her book of poems, CRAZY LOVE won the 2010 American Book Award. Three poems won the 2011 winning writers War Poetry Contest
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