Pamela Schoenewaldt lives in Knoxville, TN, where she was Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Hodges Library and taught creative and professional writing at UT. She is now a staff writer at FMB Advertising and also has non-profit clients for grant and promotional writing. She has a long list of corporate and non-profit clients for print and non-print projects.

Her short stories have been published in the U.S,, France and Italy and she has won the Chekhov Prize for Short Fiction, the Leslie Garrett, Tennessee Writers Association, Writers Place, Cascando Travel Writing and Literary Latte' awards. Her one-act play in Italian, “Espresso con Mia Madre,” (Espresso with My Mother) was produced at Teatro Cilea, Naples.

Pamela's historical novel of the immigration experience, When We Were Strangers, will be published by HarperCollins in early 2011.

Updated 2010