Pamela B. Schmid

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, judged by best-selling memoirist Leslie Jamison. 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.

Essays

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews

  • The Wild Truth, by Corrine McCandless. Washington Independent Review of Books, January 21, 2015

Guest blog posts

  • “Meditation on Metaphor,” craft essay, A View From the Loft, March 9, 2015
  • “On the Importance of Not Knowing,” craft essay, Tahoma Literary Review blog, December 15, 2015

Journalism

Awards

  • Finalist, 2016 Phoebe Contest for Nonfiction, judged by author Harrison Scott Key
  • Runner-up, 2014 Wabash Award for Nonfiction (Sycamore Review), judged by author Leslie Jamison
  • Winner, Loft Mentor Series (nonfiction), 2013–14
  • Sports Enterprise Award (third place), Metro Daily Division, MN Associated Press Association, 2006
  • Media Award for National Girls and Women in Sports Day, 2005
  • First-place, features, Metro Daily Division, MN Society of Professional Journalists, 2002
  • First place, features, Metro Daily Division, MN AP Sports Editors Association, 2000

Experience

  • Nonfiction Editor, Sleet magazine. 2013–present
  • Adjunct, Department of Emerging Media, University of St. Thomas, 2019-2023
  • Staff writer, sports and features, Star Tribune
  • Newswoman, Associated Press—Minneapolis bureau

Education

  • B.A., History, Rhetoric and Communications Studies, University of Virginia
  • M.F.A., Creative Writing, Hamline University

Readings

  • Speaking Our Peace, Ginkgo Coffeehouse, May 5, 2024
  • Writers Resist Twin Cities, Intermedia Arts, January 15, 2017
  • Mead Reading, Honey, Minneapolis, January 17, 2016
  • Loft Mentor Series Reunion Reading (40 for 40), TERZO Minneapolis, August 21, 2015
  • Cracked Walnut Literary Festival—Spectacular Journeys, Butter Bakery Café, Minneapolis, May 18, 2015
  • Sleet Read AWP16, Ice House, Minneapolis, April 8, 2015
  • Loft Mentor Series Reading, Open Book, Minneapolis, April 18, 2014
  • Cracked Walnut Literary Festival – Fitting In, Black Sheep Coffee Café, South St. Paul, April 6, 2014
  • Cracked Walnut Literary Festival, Subtext Bookstore, St. Paul, March 21, 2013
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