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Pamela Steele

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in Fayetteville, WV, The United States

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Li-Young Lee, William Stafford, Pablo Neruda, Mark Spragg, Carolyn For ...more

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Pamela Steele is the author of Paper Bird (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007), her first full-length collection of poetry, and Greasewood Creek, (Counterpoint, 2011) a novel. She earned an MFA from Spalding University in Louisville, KY and is a Fishtrap fellow, a recipient of the Kentucky Writers Coalition's Jim Wayne Miller Prize and the James Scarbrough Memorial Poetry Award. In the summer of 2007, Pamela was awarded a Jentel Artists Residency. She lives in Echo, Oregon.

PLEASE NOTE: My published works are Greasewood Creek, Paper Bird, and the forthcoming In the Fields of Fatherless Children (Counterpoint 2026). Any other books listed under my name are NOT my work. I've contacted Goodreads to have the erroneous listings removed but have been unsuc ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 87 ratings · 29 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Greasewood Creek 3.37 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Fields of Fatherless Children 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paper Bird really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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