Pamela is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist. She loves to sumi-e paint, write Japanese calligraphy, abstract paint, make jewelry, sculpt, and assemble collages. Some of her awards include the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Mainichi Haiku Award (Japan), First Place Tanka Yellow Moon Competition (Aust), First Place Kokako Tanka Competition (NZ), First Place Saigyo Tanka Competition (US), First Place Inaugural Tanka Festival (Japan), First Place (tanka) San Francisco International Contest, First Place Mt. Fuji Tanka Contest (Japan). She has illustrated several haiku/tanka books and journals. Pamela is the founder and editor of moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, the first all-women’s international tanka journal, and recently the art of tanka. Her tanka collections are A Thousand Reasons, A Solitary Woman, and pages from a tanka diary.
i climb the mountain with my eyes never ending snow
Museum of Haiku Literature Award, Frogpond 1995
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deep autumn . . .
walking barefoot
on my mother’s grave
White Lotus 2009
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first yellow crocus . . .
i release
my winter heart
Basho Haiku Festival Anthology 1997
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