Printable view of Pamela Cranston

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Oakland, CA

California US

Email:

sthubertspress@pacbell.net

Bio:

Pamela Cranston's books include: Clergy Wellness and Mutual Ministry (2000), The Madonna Murders (2003), Coming to Treeline: Adirondack Poems (2005), Searching for Nova Albion (2019), and The House of Metaphor (2023.) She has also published numerous essays, poems, and book reviews in journals and anthologies such as the Adirondack Review, Blueline, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Mystery Readers Journal, the Naugatuck River Review, the Penwood Review, Forward Movment Publications, the Anglican, and the Anglican Theological Review. A poem of hers was composed as an anthem by Jon Simsic and published by Paraclete Press. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1990, she has served San Francisco Bay area churches and hospices for the over 33 years.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Donald Hall, R.S. Thomas, Ruth Bidgood, Luci Shaw, Scott Cairns, David Scott, Louise Erdrich, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, C.S. Lewis, Barbara Brown Taylor, Ronald Blythe, Bill Bryson, E.B. White, Robertson Davies, Amor Towles, Marilynne Robinson, and Gary Snyder.

Born in:

New York City, NY

New York

Raised in:

Old Deerfield, MA

Massachusetts

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/PamelaCranstonw… [2]

Prizes won:

Poetry Society of Virginia 2020 National Book Award - semi-finalist for "Searching for Nova Albion",

Writer's Digest National Poetry Contest 2020 - 5th place winner for "My Grandfather's Typewriter",

Poetry Society of Virginia - Edgar Allan Poe Prize - Honorable Mention for "The House of Metaphor",

Poetry Society of Virginia Elizabeth j. Urquhart Memorial Prize - 1st place for "Summer in Deerfield."

What I'm reading now:

Gilead by Marilynn Robinson

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

All That She Carried by Tuya Miles

Slow Pilgrim by Scott Cairns

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Naturalists/Environmentalists

Seniors

Women