Pamela Annas grew up in the Navy, constantly moving from country to country.  She chased spawning grunion across the beach in southern California, went to first grade in post WWII Japan, lived for two years in a village in Turkey where she rode her Arabian mare along the beaches of the Bay of Mamara, and another two years contemplating the northern lights dance across icebergs in the North Sea off Bremerhaven, Germany. In San Francisco she snuck over the fence at the Cow Palace to cheer her roller derby team on Friday nights and graduated high school in Yokohama, Japan, into an era of burning draft cards and Vietnam War protests—to be followed a few years later by the burning bras and consciousness raising groups of second wave feminism.

She taught for thirty-five years at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a couple of years at Goddard Cambridge Graduate School for Social Change — Working-Class Lit, Science Fiction, Personal Narrative, Contemporary Women Poets, Writing as Women, — directed the English M.A. Program at UMass, directed American Studies fall semesters on Nantucket (our working-class university’s version of a semester abroad), coached UMB’s award-winning ballroom dance team, and raised a child before serving for six years as Associate Dean, after which she retired to write poetry and tend her organic vegetable garden.

Pamela has written books and articles on poetry and pedagogy, including Sylvia Plath: A Disturbance in Mirrors and, with Bob Rosen, edited four editions of the textbook/anthology Literature and Society. She is a member of the Radical Teacher editorial collective and its Poetry Editor. Her chapbook, Mud Season, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2011. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Patterson Literary Review, Slipstream, nibble, Istanbul Literary Review, Ibbetson Street, Pemmican, Poiesis, and Thimble, among other journals and anthologies.

She is currently at work on a new collection of poems.