Pamela Schmid is the creative nonfiction editor at Sleet, an online magazine. She was the recipient of a 2013-14 Loft Mentor Series award in nonfiction and the runner-up for the Sycamore Review’s 2014 Wabash Prize for Nonfiction, judged by author Leslie Jamison. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, Blue Mesa Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Tahoma Literary Review and elsewhere. Before receiving her MFA degree in creative writing from Hamline University, she spent more than a decade as a staff writer for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. She lives in St. Paul, Minn., with her husband and son.
“Strangling Angel,” Barren Magazine, 2019
https://barrenmagazine.com/strangling-angel/
“The Twitter Monologues,” Star Tribune, Oct. 25, 2017
http://www.startribune.com/the-twitter-monologues-or-icanquitanytime/453164133/
“I’m Surprised I Miss the Metrodome,” personal essay, Star Tribune. Feb. 9, 2016
http://www.startribune.com/i-m-surprised-to-find-i-miss-the-metrodome/367255101/
“Only Eight, He’s Learning Life Lessons in Grandma’s Nursing Home,” Star Tribune, Sept. 22, 2016
http://www.startribune.com/my-son-loves-visiting-his-grandmother-but-does-an-8-year-old-belong-in-a-nursing-home/394093831/
“Black Roses,” personal essay, Sycamore Review. Spring 2015
https://pamela-schmid.squarespace.com/#/roses/
“Current Obligations,” The Common, April 8, 2017
https://www.thecommononline.org/current-obligations/
“Good Measure,” Bellevue Literary Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 2016
http://blr.med.nyu.edu/files/blr/u7/Good_Measure.pdf
“My Big Book of Yearning,” personal essay, Sliver of Stone magazine. Issue 7, October 2013
https://sliverofstonemagazine.com/my-big-book-of-yearning-by-pamela-schmid/
“Out at Sea,” personal essay, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Vol. 16, No. 1, October 2014
http://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2014/08/28/volume-16-number-1
“Texture of Silence,” lyric essay, Blue Mesa Review. Issue No. 33, Spring 2016
http://bmr.unm.edu/issues/ (pp. 33-37)
“The Emperor,” lyric essay, Tahoma Literary Review. Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2015
https://tahomaliteraryreview.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/tahomaliteraryreview_vol2_no3.pdf (pp. 58-67)
“Buttermilk Pancakes,” Tribe Magazine, Feb. 6, 2017
http://thetribemagazine.com/buttermilk-pancakes/
Cruising, essay, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Fall 2011
https://pamela-schmid.squarespace.com/cruising
Meditation on Metaphor, craf essay, A View From the Loft, March 9, 2015
https://writersblock.loft.org/2015/03/09/4084/a_meditation_on_metaphor_or_how_to_halt_the_ripple_effect
“Woman Not Coming Back,” personal essay, Sweet: A Literary Confection. Vol. 4, No. 3, May 2012
http://www.sweetlit.com/4.3/proseSchmid.php
“Enough,” micro essay, Sleet magazine. Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2016
http://www.sleetmagazine.com/selected/schmid_v8n1.html
“Remains of My Father,” Sleet magazine. Vol. 4, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2012-13
http://www.sleetmagazine.com/selected/schmid_v4n2.5.html
“Field Trip,” published in the anthology “Rocked by the Waters,” Nodin Press, March 21, 2020
https://itascabooks.com/rocked-by-the-waters-poems-of-motherhood/
“Grits,” rock paper scissors. Fall 2010
https://pamela-schmid.squarespace.com/fiction
The Wild Truth, by Corrine McCandless. Washington Independent Review of Books. Jan. 21, 2015
http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-wild-truth
“On the Importance of Not Knowing,” craft essay, Tahoma Literary Review blog. December 15, 2015
https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/2015/12/15/on-the-importance-of-not-knowing-by-pamela-schmid/
“Meditation on Metaphor,” craft essay, A View From the Loft. March 9, 2015
https://writersblock.loft.org/2015/03/09/4084/a_meditation_on_metaphor_or_how_to_halt_the_ripple_effect
Volunteer advocates go one-on-one
http://states.aarp.org/volunteer-advocates-go-one-one/
Taking strides towards a more livable community
http://states.aarp.org/mn-livable/
Medicaid at 50 reaches 1 million state residents
http://states.aarp.org/mn-medicaid/
Making a difference regardless of age
http://states.aarp.org/mn-making-difference-regardless-age/
So much more than a box of books
https://littlefreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AARPBulletinArticle.pdf
Smart drivers keep up with changes
http://states.aarp.org/mn-driver/
Volunteers make a difference
http://states.aarp.org/experience-corps-volunteers-making-a-difference/
Property tax-aide aims to uncover savings
https://states.aarp.org/minnesota/property-tax-aide-aims-to-uncover-savings
Top priority: stop elder abuse
https://states.aarp.org/minnesota/top-priority-stop-elder-abuse
Raising donations for older pet owners in Wyoming
https://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/info-2019/maxine-yeager-pet-care-wy.html
Finalist, 2016 Phoebe Contest for Nonfiction, judged by author Harrison Scott Key
Runner-up, 2014 Wabash Award for Nonfiction (Sycamore Review), judged by author Leslie Jamison
Winner, Loft Mentor Series (nonfiction), 2013-14
Nonfiction Editor, Sleet magazine. 2013-present
Staff writer, sports and features, Star Tribune
Newswoman, Associated Press—Minneapolis bureau
B.A., History, Rhetoric and Communications Studies, University of Virginia
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Hamline University
Writers Resist Twin Cities, Intermedia Arts, Jan. 15, 2017
Mead Reading, Honey, Minneapolis, Jan. 17, 2016
Loft Mentor Series Reunion Reading (40 for 40), TERZO Minneapolis, Aug. 21, 2015
Cracked Walnut Literary Festival—Spectacular Journeys, Butter Bakery Café, Minneapolis, May 18, 2015
Sleet Read AWP16, Ice House, Minneapolis, April 8, 2015
Loft Mentor Series Reading, Open Book, Minneapolis, April 18, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMk0sAp4V60
Cracked Walnut Literary Festival – Fitting In, Black Sheep Coffee Café, South St. Paul, April 6, 2014
Cracked Walnut Literary Festival, Subtext Bookstore, St. Paul, March 21, 2013