Summary
Gailmarie Pahmeier is a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has garnered a number of awards and has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of three Artists Fellowships from the Βι¶ΉΣ³» Arts Council, including the Major Project Fellowship. She is the author of The House on Breakaheart Road, The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, and Of Bone, Of Ash, Of Ordinary Saints (nominated for the High Plains Book Award), in addition to three chapbooks, one of which, Shake It and It Snows, won the Coal Hill Chapbook Award from Autumn House Press. She has received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of Βι¶ΉΣ³», has served the City of Reno as its first Poet Laureate, has been inducted into the Βι¶ΉΣ³» Writers Hall of Fame, and she has been recognized by Βι¶ΉΣ³» Humanities as an Outstanding Teacher in the Humanities. In 2021, she accepted the position of Poet Laureate, State of Βι¶ΉΣ³», and she was a 2022 Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets.
Gailmarie Pahmeier has been a Βι¶ΉΣ³»n for over 40 years. Now Emerita, she taught creative writing and contemporary literature at the Βι¶ΉΣ³» where she was honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award. Currently, she teaches poetry in the low residency MFA program at Βι¶ΉΣ³» at Lake Tahoe.
Education
- MFA, University of Arkansas, 1983
- B.A., English, Southern Illinois University, 1979