Penulis: Pamela Smith

Pamela A. Smith is the author of two forthcoming works—a reissuing of her tenth book, Mark Time: A Gospel for the Hurried, by Tate Publishing, a poetry chapbook entitled How Jonathan Green Painted My Momma in production with Finishing Line Press—and is working on a short book of reflections called Griefwork with the book of Lamentations. Her books, published by Ave Maria Press, Twenty-Third Publications, and Paulist Press, have dealt with biblical and environmental topics. She has also authored more than a hundred articles and poems published in literary, theological, and spiritual journals and occasional anthologies. Her poetry has most recently appeared in St. Anthony Messenger, A Time for Singing, Review for Religious, and Surrounded: Living with Islands, edited by Sheryl Clough (Write Wing Press 2012). Her special interest has long been dramatic monologues—poems spoken in the voices of a variety of personas. She has spent more than forty years in teaching and administration. Currently she lives in Bluffton, South Carolina, and is secretary for education for the Catholic Diocese of Charleston. She is a member of the Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius, whom she has served in a variety of roles from pot washer to general superior. She has been writing poetry since the late 1960s and began doctoral studies in English at Lehigh University, where she originally conceived this work. She holds a doctorate in systematic theology, with a specialty in environmental ethics, from Duquesne University.