[Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia] [By: Pamela Spiro Wagner] [August, 2006]

by Pamela Spiro Wagner, Carolyn Spiro, Unknown Author

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About the author

A writer and artist who lives with diagnoses of schizophrenia and narcolepsy, plus CNS Lyme disease, Pamela Spiro Wagner graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and attended medical school for one year. Despite having spent at least twelve years of her life in psychiatric units, she has won many awards, including a First Place in the 2001/2 International Poetry Competition sponsored by the BBC World Service. In 2005, she co-authored, with her twin sister, a psychiatrist, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St Martin’s Press, 2005), which won the national NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, LA Weekly and Tikkun among other places. WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS IS HER FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, about mental illness. Her second book of poems , LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (title tentative) by Cavankerry Press will be released sometime in 2017. Wagner is also a prolific self-taught artist. The art of "pamwagg," which she only just started doing since 2008, may be viewed at her blog: https://pamelaspirowagner.com, along with current writing.
Born in Washington, Wagner lived most of her life in Connecticut but has recently moved to Vermont.