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Los Angeles native, Pam Ward’s first novel, Want Some Get Some, Kensington, chronicles LA after the 1992 riots. Her second novel, Bad Girls Burn Slow, Kensington, follows a female serial killer. A UCLA graduate and recipient of a California Arts Council Fellow and a Pushcart Nomination for poetry, Pam edited the first journal of Los Angeles black women poets entitled, The Super-girls Handbook. She operates a design studio and runs a community press called Short Dress Press. Merging writing and graphics, Pam produced My Life, LA documenting Black Angelinos in poster/stories. Her multimedia-literary showcase, “I Didn’t Survive Slavery For This!” featured poets riffing on life 200-years post emancipation. Pam has been published in Calyx, Black Renaissance, Chiron, Voices From Leimert Park and The LA TIMES. Her first book of poems, Between Good Men & No Man At All, comes out this fall on World Stage Press. She recently completed her third novel I'll Get You My Pretty based on the true story of her aunt Mattie, a want-to-be actress and her notorious-doctor-lover, the prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder.
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