Pamela Huber

Pamela Huber is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author raised on Lenape land in Delaware. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana and an Honors B.A. in Literature from American University, with minors in creative writing and biology.

As a published author, Pamela’s short stories, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, CutBank, CIRQUE, Grace & Gravity, The Journal of Lost Time, The Mid-Atlantic Review, Pioneertown, The Jane Goodall Institute’s Good For All News, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the University of Montana’s Merriam Frontier Award, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and received an honorable mention twice in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers contest. In her work as a journalist, she has interviewed Dr. Jane Goodall, American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt, poet Kyle Dargan, authors Lidia Yuknavitch, Debra Magpie Earling, and Alexandra Teague, and Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Pamela studied and lived in Washington, DC; Rome, Italy; Missoula, Montana; and Palmer, Alaska. In DC, she served as a poetry editor for American University’s Literary Magazine and as a writer and editor for AU’s investigative long-form journalism magazine, culminating in her role as Editor-in-Chief.

Pamela served as an AmeriCorps volunteer for American Conservation Experience in South Lake Tahoe, California, before joining the education nonprofit CommonLit. For 7 years at CommonLit, Pamela dedicated herself to improving childhood literacy.

She traveled full time for two years before moving to Missoula, Montana where she received her MFA and served as the Fiction editor and Interviews editor for CutBank. She now resides in Palmer, Alaska, where she farms, teaches, and writes.

She loves travel, camping, herbalism, kayaking, theatre, dance, hiking, education policy, volunteering, farming, and of course, reading and writing. You can find her on a warm day in a hammock on her farm with a good book.