Pam Petro

Pam Petro is an author, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park, the MacDowell Colony, the Spring Creek Project and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Petro is on the creative nonfiction faculty of the Lesley University master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is also a co­founder of the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales. Her new book is The Long Field, a memoir of Wales