Pam Burr Smith

Pam Burr Smith has published short stories, essays, articles and poems in many journals, including, Georgia Review, Kansas Quarterly, Slow Dancer, and Cafe Review. She has published two poetry books, Heaven Jumping Woman, Moon Pie Press, 2011, and Near Stars, 2019, Blackberry Books, one chapbook, She Speaks, 2019 and one book on Narrative Therapy, Living Conversations, Fresh Press, 2001. She was awarded an Honorable Mention by Mary Oliver in the 1994 MWPA Poetry Chapbook Contest. In 2021, she won the Finest Poem Prize at the Plunkett Poetry Festival at UMA. After a career as a therapist, she is returning to her earlier career of painting. She has been writing poetry all her life, and she lives in Brunswick, Maine.