Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet and editor.

Life
She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973. She has taught at MIT and Oberlin College.

Career
Alexander is the author of four books of poetry. Her first book, Navigable Waterways, won the 1984 Yale Younger Poets Series.

Her work has appeared in journals including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College.

She was an associate editor of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

Awards

 * 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
 * 1984 Yale Younger Poet award, Selected by James Merrill
 * Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
 * Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
 * Ohio Arts Council grant

Anthologies

 * The Extraordinary Tide
 * American Voices
 * Poetry for a Small Planet
 * Cape Discovery
 * Poetry for a Small Planet
 * Cape Discovery