Guest: Pamela Kripke

Pamela Kripke-Writer New York Times and Chicago Tribune-author-Piecing Together The Fabric of a Families Loss-At the Seams and And Then You Can Apply Ice. Bio Pamela has been a journalist for many years, writing for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Huffington Post, Slate, Salon, Medium, New York Magazine, Parenting, Redbook, Elle, D Magazine, Creators Syndicate, Gannett Newspapers and McClatchy, among numerous other publications. My first novel, At the Seams, was published this past spring by the traditional small press, Open Books. It received the Arch Street Press First Chapter Award and was excerpted in the literary journals, Embark and West Trade Review. Also, my short stories and creative nonfiction have been published in Folio, The Concrete Desert Review, The Barcelona Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Book of Matches, Meet Me At 19th, The Woven Tale Press, The MacGuffin, Underwired, Doubleback Review and Round Table Literary Journal. I hold degrees from Brown and Northwestern and was accepted to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.