Pamela Petro

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Pamela Petro

Pamela Petro is an author, artist, and educator. [1] Her books, including Travels in an Old Tongue (1996), Sitting up with the Dead (2001, UK, 2002, 2017 US), The Slow Breath of Stone (2005), and The Long Field (2021, UK 2023, US) investigate ideas of place, home, longing, and belonging, using people and places to illuminate and reveal one another. She is interested in the Welsh concept of hiraeth, an intractable longing for someone or something — a home, a culture, a language, or younger self — that’s been left behind or taken away, or has only ever existed in the imagination. Petro’s photography-based visual art explores similar themes in both environmental and word-image installations.

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Petro teaches creative nonfiction and graphic novel and comics on Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing Program and at Smith College, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The Long Field (2021, UK) published by Little Toller, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Career

Petro received her BA from Brown University and MA in Word and Image Studies from St David's University College, now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. [2]

In 2019 Petro exhibited The Blink of Our Lifetimes: The Ecology of Dusk at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. [3]

Co-Writer in Residence with Marguerite Harrison, Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word, Oregon State University: Collaborative Residency at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek, August 2015.

MacDowell Colony Fellow, Fall, 2014; selected as Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow for 2013-14.

Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Trinity St David, 2014.

In 2011 she was named by the National Park Service as an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon, for both writing and photography. [4]

Awards and Shortlists

The Long Field (2021, UK), published by Little Toller, was a finalist for the Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Financial Times Best Travel Books 2021 [5]

A Notable Essay of 2015 in the Best American Essay Series for Flow, (Graphic Essay), Slab Issue No. 9, Spring, 2014.

Books

Essays (Selected)

Comics

Strange Bedfellows, a recurring Backpage Comic in The American Scholar, beginning March 2021.

Interviews (Selected)

Let's Talk Memoir with Ronit Plank, "The Stories Landscapes Hold and the Presence of Absence featuring Pamela Petro. [7]

Season Salon with Mike Parker [8]

Nostalgia Podcast with Chris Deacy [9]

Nantucket Athenaeum with Jane Brox [10]

A.J. West’s Instagram Podcast [11]

Mike’s Season Salon on The Clearing [12]

Noel James Radio Cymru programme [13]

Lesley podcast with Georgia Sparling [14]

CBC Tapestry interview, posted 27 Feb, 2022 [15]

Cambridge Common Writers, 7 April 2022 [16]

The Telegraph Best Travel Books of 2021 [17]

BBC Online Magazine, Cymru Fyw [18]

Wales Arts Review, 14 Sept 2021, Printed excerpt from The Long Field [19]

Jon Gower Review, Nation Cymru [20]

Stanford’s Travel Bookstore newsletter blog [21]

The Guardian on Pentre Ifan [22]

Caught by the River [23]

Lit Wales what’s happening [24]

The Three Hares Blog (Lisa Tulfer) [25]

Financial Times Best Travel Books 2021 [5]

Guardian 10 Walks in Winter [26]

New Welsh Review [27]

Lampeter 200th celebration [28]

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  4. ↑ "Grand Canyon Artist-in-Residence Programs Announce Their Selections for the 2010–2011 Season". National Park Service. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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