Pamela Painter
Pamela Painter is the author of two story collections: The Long and Short of It and Getting to Know the Weather, winner of the GLCA Award for First Fiction. She is also co-author of the widely-used textbook, What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Quick Fiction, and in numerous anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, and MicroFiction. She has received fellowships from the Massachussetts Artists Foundation and the NEA; has won three Pushcart Prizes; and earned Agni Review’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College.
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