Pam Uschuk, Pearl S. Buck Writer in Residence, to read from work

Pam Uschuk

Pamela Uschuk, Randolph’s Spring 2024 Pearl S. Buck Writer in Residence, will read from her work at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Uschuk is the author of seven poetry collections—including Crazy Love, winner of the 2010 American Book Award; Blood Flower, a Book List 2015 Notable Book; and, most recently, Refugee—as well as the editor of the anthologies Truth to Power and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century.

Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, was featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and appears in over 300 journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, Parnassus Review, and Colorado Review.

Among her many awards are the 2022 Storyknife Women Writers Residency in Homer, Alaska, the 2011 War Poetry Prize from Winning Writers, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, and prizes from Ascent and Amnesty International.

Uschuk also directed the Salem College Center for Women Writers, has taught poetry for years on Native American nations, was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and was a featured writer at the 2013 Prague Summer Programs.

Editor-in-chief of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, she lives in Colorado and Arizona with her husband, poet William Pitt Root, and leads writing workshops at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

She is currently finishing a memoir about healers and healing and her experience with cancer.