Pamela Erens

Pamela Erens's novel The Understory (Ironweed Press) was the winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize, as well as a finalist for a
Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Pamela's short fiction has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Chicago Review, Boston Review, The Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Upstreet, Skidrow Penthouse, Redivider, and the short-story anthology Visiting Hours (Press 53). Pamela has been the recipient of two New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships in fiction, and was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar by the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is a member of PEN.

Pamela has also published poetry, literary essays, articles, and book reviews in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, New York Newsday, Glamour, O: The Oprah Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Ms.,and Mother Jones. As an editor at magazines including Glamour and 7 Days, she won national awards for both her editing and her journalism.