Biography - Pamela M Dionne



PMDPamela Moore Dionne has been a recipient of a residency at Centrum and an Artist Trust GAP Grant. She received one of the Jack Straw Foundation's 2001 Artist Awards for her ghazal series about Sabina Spielrein, a contemporary of Jung and Freud. She was a 1999 Jack Straw Writer with her novel-in-progress titled Pearl and Maitland. She is the founding editor for the online arts and literature journal LITERARY SALT at www.literarysalt.com.

Her publications include the following: Avatar Review; Snow Monkey; Drunken Boat; Pontoon; Switched on Gutenberg; Shenandoah; Raven Chronicles; Vox Populi; The Jack Straw Writers Program Anthology; PoetsWest Literary Journal; Communiqué Yipe! ; Manastash Review; International Alliance for Women in Music; Womanplace; Exhibition; Pine Grove Press; Orphic Lute; Signals; Slightly West; The Navigator; and others.

Ms. Dionne has collaborated as a spoken word artist with jazz musicians including Jim Knodle, Jim Nolet, Dan Blunck, Tony Grasso and Chuck Smart. She has performed her work at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, The Velvet Elvis, SAM's Sales and Rental Gallery and various other Seattle venues as well as out of state venues such as the Hotel Utah in San Francisco.

With sculptor Juan Rodriguez, she has performed poetry from her Gray's Anatomy Series at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts.

Pamela has had one-woman visual art shows at Bud's Jazz Records & Gallery, Amy Burnett Gallery, Daniel Smith Gallery, and Artists' Edge Gallery. She is one of a group of literary artists selected for the Washington State Public Art Registry. Her visual art and photography have appeared in The Raven Chronicles.

She's a member of the Academy of American Poets and has taught at various conferences including most recently the Gig Harbor/Key Peninsula Writers' Conference. She has presented one-day workshops for honors English classes in various school districts as well as conducted poetry hikes/workshops and classes in creativity and collaboration as summer faculty at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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