Pamela Petro

Pamela Petro is an author, artist, and educator.[1] Her books, including Travels in an Old Tongue (1996), Sitting up with the Dead (2001, UK, 2002, 2017 US), The Slow Breath of Stone (2005), and The Long Field (2021, UK 2023, US) investigate ideas of place, home, longing, and belonging, using people and places to illuminate and reveal one another. She is interested in the Welsh concept of hiraeth, an intractable longing for someone or something — a home, a culture, a language, or younger self — that’s been left behind or taken away, or has only ever existed in the imagination. Petro’s photography-based visual art explores similar themes in both environmental and word-image installations.

Pamela Petro

Petro teaches creative nonfiction and graphic novel and comics on Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing Program and at Smith College, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The Long Field (2021, UK) published by Little Toller, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Career

Petro received her BA from Brown University and MA in Word and Image Studies from St David's University College, now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.[2]

In 2019 Petro exhibited The Blink of Our Lifetimes: The Ecology of Dusk at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.[3]

Co-Writer in Residence with Marguerite Harrison, Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word, Oregon State University: Collaborative Residency at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek, August 2015.

MacDowell Colony Fellow, Fall, 2014; selected as Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow for 2013-14.

Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Trinity St David, 2014.

In 2011 she was named by the National Park Service as an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon, for both writing and photography.[4]

Awards and Shortlists

The Long Field (2021, UK), published by Little Toller, was a finalist for the Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Financial Times Best Travel Books 2021[5]

A Notable Essay of 2015 in the Best American Essay Series for Flow, (Graphic Essay), Slab Issue No. 9, Spring, 2014.

Books
  • The Long Field, 2021 and 2023, UK, Little Toller; 2023, US, Arcade Publishing.
  • The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story,[2] 2005, Fourth Estate
  • Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey Through the American South,[2] 2001, UK, Flamingo; 2002 US and 2nd edition 2017, Arcade Publishing; 2013, Audible edition.
  • Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World in Welsh,[6] 1997, Flamingo, HarperCollins.

Essays (Selected)
  • "Queen of the stone age: my love affair with Wales’ megaliths." The Guardian, October 3, 2021.
  • "Cooking Backwards. On becoming a kitchen archivist." Guernica Magazine, May 24, 2021.
  • "The AElfgyva Syndrome and Erasure of Women’s Stories." Ms. Magazine, January 3, 2021.
  • "Shedding Light. Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions." (Graphic Essay), Guernica Magazine, November 2, 2020.
  • "Coincidence." The Harvard Review, December 22, 2017.
  • "Erosion" (Graphic Essay), Lumina Online Issue No. 3, March 2015.
  • "Dreaming in Welsh" The Paris Review Daily, 18 Sept. 2012.

Comics

Strange Bedfellows, a recurring Backpage Comic in The American Scholar, beginning March 2021.

Interviews (Selected)

Season Salon with Mike Parker[7]

Nostalgia Podcast with Chris Deacy[8]

Nantucket Athenaeum with Jane Brox[9]

A.J. West’s Instagram Podcast[10]

Mike’s Season Salon on The Clearing[11]

Noel James Radio Cymru programme[12]

Lesley podcast with Georgia Sparling[13]

CBC Tapestry interview, posted 27 Feb, 2022[14]

Cambridge Common Writers, 7 April 2022[15]

The Telegraph Best Travel Books of 2021[16]

BBC Online Magazine, Cymru Fyw[17]

Wales Arts Review, 14 Sept 2021, Printed excerpt from The Long Field[18]

Jon Gower Review, Nation Cymru[19]

Stanford’s Travel Bookstore newsletter blog[20]

The Guardian on Pentre Ifan[21]

Caught by the River[22]

Lit Wales what’s happening[23]

The Three Hares Blog (Lisa Tulfer)[24]

Financial Times Best Travel Books 2021[5]

Guardian 10 Walks in Winter[25]

New Welsh Review[26]

Lampeter 200th celebration[27]

References
  1. "Biography & Contact - Pamela Petro". pamelapetro.com. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  2. JC Olsthoorn (2015). "Yearning for the Irretrievable | Pamela Petro: Art & Interview". Numero Cinq magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. "The Blink of Our Lifetimes: The Ecology of Dusk | Watson Institute".
  4. "Grand Canyon Artist-in-Residence Programs Announce Their Selections for the 2010–2011 Season". National Park Service. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. "Best books of 2021: Travel". Financial Times. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. Pamela Petro (18 September 2012). "Dreaming in Welsh". The Paris Review. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  7. "Season Salon 6 Alban Elfed | Culture Colony". culturecolony.com. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  8. "Pamela Petro". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  9. Pamela Petro & Jane Brox: The Long Field, Hireath &The Presence of Absence, retrieved 18 February 2023
  10. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  11. Woolcott, Jon (25 October 2021). "Mike Parker's Season Salon with Pamela Petro". Little Toller Books. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  12. "BBC Radio Cymru - Noel James ar Drywydd Hiraeth". BBC (in Welsh). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  13. "Why We Write Podcast | Lesley University". lesley.edu. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  14. "Can you belong to a place you've never been before?".
  15. "Longing and Absence: Pamela Petro's The Long Field – Cambridge Common Writers". Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  16. "Set out on a thrilling literary journey". Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via PressReader.
  17. "Yr awdur o America a deithiodd y byd yn Gymraeg a darganfod ei chynefin yng Nghymru". BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). 12 August 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  18. Petro, Pamela (14 September 2021). "The Long Field by Pamela Petro | Extract". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  19. "Review: The Long Field is a rich meditation on the meaning of hiraeth and memory". Nation.Cymru. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  20. Brosnan, Jude (15 September 2021). "The Long Field by Pamela Petro". Stanfords Blog. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  21. Petro, Pamela (3 October 2021). "Queen of the stone age: my love affair with Wales' megaliths". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  22. "The itch in the landscape | Caught by the River | Caught by the River". www.caughtbytheriver.net. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  23. "Pamela Petro Reads from The Long Field". Literature Wales. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  24. "The Three Hares Blog". The Three Hares Blog. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  25. Various (8 January 2022). "Hike and seek: 10 great UK winter walks with a surprise discovery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  26. Davies, Gwen (25 January 2022). "The Long Field". New Welsh Review. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  27. "200 biographies Celebrating Lampeter's Bicentenary | University of Wales Trinity Saint David". www.uwtsd.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
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