Autor/-in: Pamela Spiro Wagner

Pamela Spiro Wagner is an award-winning writer, artist and poet. In 2001/2, she shared a First Place in the BBC World Service Meridian Writings International Poetry Competition, judged by Nobelist Wole Soyinke, for her poem "The Prayers of the Mathemetician. " With her twin sister, a psychiatrist, Wagner co-authored the popular memoir, 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 first book of poems, We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders. , published by Cavankerry Press in 2009, was a finalist for Poetry Book of the Year in Foreword Reviews. magazine. Wagner is also an entirely self-taught artist who started making art, and doing it nearly non-stop, in 2008, after the "miracle of a small brain bleed. Two of her life-size papier mache sculptures are on permanent exhibit at the Norwich, Connecticut Otis Library. Her unusual but highly skilled drawings have appeared with accompanying poems in the new magazine, Collective DreamArts. Wagner currently resides Brattleboro, Vermont.