Background
Uschuk, Pamela Marie was born on June 10, 1948 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Daughter of George and Ella Marie Uschuk.
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This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. FINDING PEACHES IN THE DESERT won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Luis Urrea wrote of this book, "Whether she writes of the sexy quiet of marriage . . . or the lacerating political rage that bursts out of many of these pages, Uschuk maintains the light that burns in her chest. All the landscapes here – from the desert's rumpled floor to the poet’s own bed to the torture chambers of Chile – are alive and vivid with this light." Joy Harjo calls it a "sensual garden."
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In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk’s earlier poems. It continues themes in Uschuk’s American Book Award winner, Crazy Love. The poems braid the startling, sometimes brutal stories of her Russian/Czech immigrant family during the McCarthy Era in a conservative Michigan farming community with stories of courageous individuals, especially women, who persevere to love, despite it all. Uschuk’s step-grandfather, father, brother, nephews, and first husband all suffered severe PTSD as combat veterans who returned home from wars that ravished not only their lives, but the lives of the women and children closest to them. This is the history not just of one family but of immigrants in this nation. These poems, although set in landscapes across the globe, commonly draw their imagery and healing from the natural world, the wild world, and the integrity of the human heart.
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Uschuk, Pamela Marie was born on June 10, 1948 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Daughter of George and Ella Marie Uschuk.
Bachelor in English, Central Michigan University. Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Fiction, University Montana, 1986.
Poet in-schools Montana Arts Council, Helena, Montana, 1983-1987. Writer in-residence Poets in Public Service, New York City, 1987-1991, Pacific Luth University, Tacoma, 1990. Instructor Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1987-1992.
Writer-instructor Arts Reach, Tucson, since 1994. Instructor University Arizona Writing Works Center, since 1995. Board directors Arts Reach, program director 1998-1999.
Member faculty Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, visiting poet, 2001. Tucson/Pima Arts fellow in writing, 2001. Director Center for Women Writers, associate professor creative writing, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2002-2005, Raven's Word Writers Center, 2005.
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Member Academy of America Poets, Poets and Writers, Poetry Society of America, Associated Writing Program, Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, Defenders of Wildlife.
Married Jerome W. Gates, June 7, 1973 (divorced September 1981). Married William Pitt Root, November 6, 1987.