About Pam Garvey

Pamela Garvey’s chapbook Fear (Finishing Line Press, 2008) was a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Competition. Her poems and stories have been published in such journals as Cimarron Review, Esquire, Margie, The North American Review, RATTLE, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Garvey, an Associate Professor of English at St. Louis Community College--Meramec, is also a past semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/The Nation prize. Garvey lives in the St. Louis with her husband and son and is the co-founder of Words on Purpose, a committee of socially concerned writers who organize a benefit reading series.