Pamela Joy

Pamela Joy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Photography & Cinema from The Ohio State University. She also studied literature and creative writing at the Columbus State Community College. While in Columbus, Pamela volunteered at the Thurber House Literary Center. There she served on the Author Visits Planning Committee, which brought in novelists including Amy Tan, Anne Lamott and Lawrence Block.

Starting out as a journalist, her writing moved into healthcare and nonprofit communications, and grant writing. She is currently working on her first novel after having returned to the Cleveland area. Her essay, Tolerance in the Time of the Coronavirus, was recently published by the University of Akron’s Rubbertop Review.

Pamela has attended Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator conferences and is an avid reader of Historical & Literary Fiction.