Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973. She teaches at Oberlin College.

Pamela Alexander

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Pamela Alexander

Her papers are held at Bates College.

Pamela Alexander

Awards

1996 Iowa Poetry Prize

1985 Yale Younger Poet award

Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship

Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship

Ohio Arts Council grant

Works

"Dingle Way", Perihelion

Anthologies

The Extraordinary Tide

American Voices

Poetry for a Small Planet

Cape Discovery

References

1948 births

Living people

American women poets

Bates College alumni

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni

Oberlin College faculty

Yale Younger Poets winners

21st-century American women academics

21st-century American women writers