Pamela Paige Porter was born on July 14,1956 and is a Canadian novelist and poet.
25 Facts About Pamela Porter
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Pamela Porter was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana.
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Pamela Porter emigrated to Canada with her husband Rob Porter, from the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family, and resides in North Saanich, British Columbia.
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Pamela Porter has received praise for her young adult novels, especially The Crazy Man.
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Pamela Porter's poetry has won the Prism International Poetry Prize and the Vallum Magazine Poetry Prize, and has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the United States.
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When Porter was 12 years old, her father was transferred to Monroe, Louisiana, where she attended Robert E Lee Junior High.
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Pamela Porter recalls becoming very interested in world politics and the civil rights movement by watching the evening news every day.
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Pamela Porter was first introduced to poetry while flipping through the back of her English language arts book in class.
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Pamela Porter picked up books from the library, books of poetry and pieces that usually were short, the length she felt she could read.
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Pamela Porter was introduced to poems by Robert Frost, particularly "Desert Places".
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Pamela Porter believed she was always destined to be an author, and remembers always wanting to play the game "Authors" instead of "Scrabble" as a child.
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Pamela Porter holds an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Montana.
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Pamela Porter studied the German language for a few years and was interested in becoming fluent in some other languages and becoming a translator.
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Pamela Porter is an accomplished musician, noted particularly for her abilities in piano, guitar, and singing, and was encouraged by university faculty to major in music.
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Pamela Porter was 19 years old when she took her first writing course with John Skoyles.
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Pamela Porter has been a professor at the University of Victoria as a sessional instructor.
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Pamela Porter has said that her first influence was the Bible.
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Pamela Porter was raised in a family of stalwart Presbyterians who were strict followers of their religion.
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Pamela Porter learned to read at the age of five as her father held his finger beneath the words in a hymn book.
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Pamela Porter has early memories of hearing the King James Bible read aloud; this gave her an introduction to literature and diverse vocabulary at a young age.
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Pamela Porter has said that The Complete Poems of Robert Frost was the only book of literature in her house; her mother received it as a gift.
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Pamela Porter's work has had a great impact on juvenile audiences.
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Pamela Porter's books are distinguishable from other children books as their themes deal with real-life issues and are often based on serious subjects, and are written in verse rather than conventional prose.
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However, as Pamela Porter is first and foremost a poet, her adult poetry is gaining a wider and more expansive readership.
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Pamela Porter has been deeply involved with rescuing animals, including dogs, cats, horses, and a rabbit, and taking them in as her own.