Pamela Miller

Pamela Miller grew up on the South Side of Chicago and had no idea there was also a North Side of Chicago until she was 18. Since making this astounding discovery, she has lived all of her adult life on the North Side, where she has been writing and performing poetry for more than 30 years. Her work has been published in a wide variety of literary magazines and anthologies, including The Paris Review , Pudding , The MacGuffin , Wisconsin Review , Free Lunch , Primavera , Wicked Alice , After...See more

Pamela Miller grew up on the South Side of Chicago and had no idea there was also a North Side of Chicago until she was 18. Since making this astounding discovery, she has lived all of her adult life on the North Side, where she has been writing and performing poetry for more than 30 years. Her work has been published in a wide variety of literary magazines and anthologies, including The Paris Review , Pudding , The MacGuffin , Wisconsin Review , Free Lunch , Primavera , Wicked Alice , After Hours , Dangerous Dames , Solace in So Many Words and many others. She is the author of MISS UNTHINKABLE (Mayapple Press), Recipe for Disaster (Mayapple Press), Mysterious Coleslaw (Ridgeway Press) and Fast Little Shoes (Erie Street Press). She was won awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Feminist Writers Guild, the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Poetry Awards, Rambunctious Review and the Frieda Stein Fenster Memorial Poetry Awards. Ms. Miller is married to science fiction writer Richard Saur Stories Chwedyk. Her favorite poem of all time is Kenneth Koch's Fresh Air. See less