Pamela Schmid is an award-winning journalist, essayist and creative writer. A Loft Mentor Series winner in nonfiction, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and has served for more than a decade as the creative nonfiction editor at Sleet, an online literary magazine. Her words have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, Tahoma Literary Review, Blue Mesa Review, Baltimore Review and elsewhere. Her essay “Black Roses” was named runner-up for the Wabash Prize for Nonfiction; contest judge, best-selling memoirist Leslie Jamison, called it “a deeply moving narrative of patience and loss.” She spent more than a decade as a staff writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and has been a regular contributor to AARP Bulletin and AARP The Magazine. She also has a poem stamped on the sidewalk near her St. Paul, Minnesota home.
