Pamela Alexander was born in 1948 in Natick, Massachusetts and is an American poet, writer, and editor. She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973. She has taught at MIT and Oberlin College. Alexander is the author of four books of poetry. Her first book, Navigable Waterways, won the 1984 Yale Younger Poets Series.
Her work has appeared in journals including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, and American Scholar. Her papers are held at Bates College, and she was an associate editor of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. She has won the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize, 1984 Yale Younger Poet award- Selected by James Merrill, Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship, and Ohio Arts Council grant. Her poetry books are: Slow Fire, Inland, Commonwealth of Wings, and Navigable Waterways.
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