Pamela is the author of the collection of poetry Seven Miles Deep (Five Oaks P, 2017). Her poetry, fiction and book reviews have appeared in Esquire,Missouri Review, Margie, Spoon River Poetry Review, The North American Review and many other journals. Honors include being a semi-finalist for the “Discovery” The Nation prize. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Things Impossible to Swallow (2River Press, 2013), and Fear (Finishing Line Press, 2008), a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Competition. Her one-act plays have been performed at the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and St. Louis Community College, where Garvey is a professor of English. She is currently working on a full-length play entitled The Piddlings.