Author Bio Pamela Annas

Pamela Annas grew up on military bases around the world, living for two years in a village in Turkey and graduating from high school in Yokohama, Japan. She is Professor Emerita of English at University of Massachusetts/Boston, where she offered courses in working-class literature, modern and contemporary poetry, science fiction, and personal narrative writing, is a member of the editorial collective and poetry editor at Radical Teacher and has published books and articles on poetry and pedagogy, and poems in anthologies and  journals, including most recently Atlanta Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, Patterson Literary Review, Innisfree, Adanna, Thimble, Nixes Mate Review, and Bond St. Review.  Her chapbook Mud Season was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2011. Several of her poems are currently the choreopoem script for a modern dance performance, Origami Night, performed in Portland, OR December 2023 and in Boston, July,  August 2024.