įor generations, Rob’s family has gone to Saskatchewan every summer to work on the farm. Porter has been a professor at the University of Victoria as a sessional instructor. The family now resides near Sidney, British Columbia. She and Rob traveled a lot together before having children they lived in Sunspot, New Mexico, and then moved to Seattle before moving to Ulm, Montana to be closer to Rob's family, who were in Calgary. Soon after earning her MFA, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in Vermont. Other teachers were Jack Myers, Richard Hugo, and later Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Porter was 19 years old when she took her first writing course with John Skoyles. Porter also is an accomplished musician, noted particularly for her abilities in piano, guitar, and singing, and was encouraged by university faculty to major in music. She studied the German language for a few years and was interested in becoming fluent in some other languages and becoming a translator. When she first entered university, she was very interested in languages. She holds an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Montana. Porter finished her undergraduate degree at Southern Methodist University. She believed she was always destined to be an author, and remembers always wanting to play the game "Authors" instead of "Scrabble" as a child. ![]() She was also introduced to poems by Robert Frost, particularly "Desert Places". She picked up books from the library, books of poetry and pieces that usually were short, the length she felt she could read. Porter was first introduced to poetry while flipping through the back of her English language arts book in class. She recalls becoming very interested in world politics and the civil rights movement by watching the evening news every day. She remembers her school as being very strict she had to address all her elders as "Yes, Ma'am, No, Ma'am, Yes, Sir, No, Sir." She was first introduced to racism at her school when everyone treated the African American staff with no respect by calling them by their first names and playing around with them. When Porter was 12 years old, her father was transferred to Monroe, Louisiana, where she attended Robert E. ![]() Her father, who worked for an insurance company, was transferred, and then the family moved to Dallas, Texas. Porter lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico until halfway through kindergarten. Her poetry has won the Prism International Poetry Prize and the Vallum Magazine Poetry Prize, and has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the United States. She has received praise for her young adult novels, especially The Crazy Man. She emigrated to Canada with her husband Rob Porter, from the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family, and resides in North Saanich, British Columbia. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana. Pamela Paige Porter (born July 14, 1956) is a Canadian novelist and poet.
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