About

Pamela Huber is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author from Lenape land in Delaware. She holds 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 in Atlanta Review, Grace & Gravity’s Furious Gravity, Still Points Arts Quarterly, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Rising Phoenix Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts & LettersDelaware Bards Poetry Review, CommonLit, The Jane Goodall Institute’s Good For All News, American Literary Magazine, and AWOL Magazine. Her photography has also been published in American Literary Magazine. She 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, 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 and Rome, Italy. In college, she served as a poetry editor, copyeditor, and regular reader for American University’s Literary Magazine. She served as a writer and editor for the campus’s investigative long-form journalism magazine every semester, culminating in her role as Editor-in-Chief her senior year.

After graduation, Pamela served a summer in South Lake Tahoe, California as an AmeriCorps volunteer building and maintaining outdoor trails for American Conservation Experience.

Pamela currently travels full time and works for CommonLit, an education nonprofit dedicated to improving childhood literacy. She loves travel, camping, kayaking, baking bread, dance, theatre, hiking, education policy, volunteering, and of course, reading and writing. You can find her on a warm spring day in a hammock at a national park.