Pamela Yenser

PAMELA YENSER (BA, MA, MFA) was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and has been teaching at colleges and universities since she was a sophomore at WSU. She does improv and gives readings. Her poems are available online at Connotation Press and Notable Kansas Poets; in print at Poetry Northwest, Midwest Quarterly, Shenandoah, Massachusetts Review, others; and in many anthologies. She and her husband, the poet Jon Kelly Yenser (UNM Press), work at NM Book Editors, LLC, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She has edited for her professors at Wichita State University, the Cloud Physics Lab at University of Washington, Pearson Textbook Publishers, St. Martin's Press, Cooper Press (Washington State University), Fawkes Press, Booktrope, Mikrokosmos literary magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, and clients at SouthWest Writers. She has worked as university publications writer, editor, and instructor of graduate research, improv, and Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, and CNF). She is available for readings and workshops.