- Pamela Gemin
Pamela Gemin (born
April 20 ,1954 ) is an author and editor. She is also an Associate professor of English at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Oshkosh .Works
She is the author of "Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers" (1999, New Rivers Press), which was a 1999
Minnesota Voices Project winner from New Rivers Press. She was the editor of University of Iowa Press's "Boomer Girls" (1999, with Paula Sergi), "Are You Experienced?" (2003), and "Sweeping Beauty" (2005)."Boomer Girls" and its sequel "Are You Experienced?" are seminal collections that capture the Baby Boom generation, featuring work from some of its most famous poets, including
Rita Dove ,Heid Erdrich , andJulia Alvarez , along with lesser known authors, each with her own take on being a "Boomer."Gemin has published poems in such journals as "Green Mountains Review" and "Prairie Schooner", and her poetry and anthologies have been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition", as well as
Garrison Keillor 's "Writers' Almanac".Honors
She received a 2005 Wisconsin Arts Board Awards Fellowship in Literary Arts from the Wisconsin Arts Board for her poetry. [http://arts.state.wi.us/static/pr121004.htm] [http://www.uwosh.edu/news_bureau/releases/dec04/gemin.php]
She was awarded the
D.H. Lawrence Fellowship from theUniversity of New Mexico in 2001, and was a writer-in-residence at theChautauqua Institution in 2005.External links
* [http://www.english.uwosh.edu/gemin/ Faculty page at UW-Oshkosh]
References
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4793976 National Public Radio – 'Sweeping Beauty' Cleans Up With Poetry, by Susan Stamberg] Discusses a poetry collection edited by Pamela Gemin, with quotations from her]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050928/ai_n15615065 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 28, 2005 by Annysa Johnson – Takes Five; Pamela Gemin; On housework, poets offer sweeping verse]
* [http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/presenters/author.php?author_id=47 Wisconsin Book Festival – Pamela Gemin]
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