Pamela Uschuk is an American poet

Poet

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, and Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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. She won a 2010 American Book Award

American Book Award

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, for Crazy Love: New Poems.

She studied at Interlochen Arts Academy.
She graduated from the University of Montana with a MFA in Poetry and Fiction.
She taught at Marist College

Marist College

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, Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Lutheran University

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, Fort Lewis College

Fort Lewis College

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, the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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, Salem College

Salem College

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She has taught at Greenhaven Prison, and Native American schools on the Salish, Sioux

Sioux

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, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation

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, Blackfeet

Blackfeet

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, Crow

Crow Nation

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, Tohono O'odham

Tohono O'odham

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 and Yaqui reservations.

Her work appears in Agni, American Voice, Asheville Poetry Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, Southeast Review.

She married poet William Pitt Root

William Pitt Root

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; they live near Durango, Colorado

Durango, Colorado

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Works

• Crazy Love: New Poems Wings Press, 2009, ISBN 9780916727581
• Heartbeats in Stones Codhill Press, 2005, ISBN 9781930337176
• Scattered Risks Wings Press, 2005, ISBN 9780916727123
• One-Legged Dancer Wings Press, 2002, ISBN 9780930324766
• Finding Peaches in the Desert Wings Press, 2000, ISBN 9780930324599
• Without Birds, Without Flowers, Without Trees Flume Press, 1990, ISBN 9780961398477
• Light From Dead Stars (Full Count, 1981)

External links

• "Pam Uschuk ~ interviewed by Derek Alger", Pif Magazine, March 13, 2009
• "Pam Uschuk", Wings Press