Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry: Slow Fire (Ausable/Copper Canyon), Inland (University of Iowa Press), Commonwealth of Wings (Wesleyan University Press), and Navigable Waterways (Yale University Press). The first and third books won the Yale Younger Poet and Iowa Poetry prizes, respectively. Her poems have been published in many periodicals, including the New Yorker, Atlantic, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, Subtropics, and the New Republic, and her essays have appeared in Cimarron Review and Denver Quarterly. Honors include a fellowship from the Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard), two residency fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, and three residencies at the MacDowell Colony. On the writing faculty at M.I.T. and Oberlin College for many years, she later spent five years traveling the continent in an RV with her cat. She served on the editorial board of FIELD magazine for several
years and in 2020 co-edited Wendy Battin: On the Life and Work of an American Master in the Unsung Masters series from Gulf Coast/Pleiades/CopperNickel. She also writes mystery novels under the pen name Pam Fox. She currently lives in Belmont, Maine, and her papers are held at Bates College.