Pamela Painter

Pamela Painter is the author of the Know the Weather (Univ. of Illinois Press), award-winning story collection Getting to and co-author, with Anne Bernays, of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, published in 1991 by HarperCollins and revised for a text edition in 1995. A new story collection, The Long and the Short of It, came out in the spring of 1999 from Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Ploughshares, among others and in numerous anthologies. She has received awards and fellowships from the Illinois and Massachusetts Arts Councils, the NEA, and most recently, AGNI's John Cheever Award for Fiction and a Pushcart Prize for "Grief," a story published in Ploughshares. She is a founding editor of Story Quarterly. She is on the faculty of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program and teaches at Emerson College in Boston.

A selection of Pamela Painter's works are available on the Ploughshares web site.