Summary
Gailmarie Pahmeier is a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has garnered a number of awards and has been widely published w88 live casinoin literary journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of three Artists Fellowships from the Nevada 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, w88 online casinoShake 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 Nevada, has served the City of Reno as its first Poet Laureate, has been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, and she has been recognized by Nevada Humanities as an Outstanding Teacher w88 casino gamesin the Humanities. In 2021, she accepted the position of Poet Laureate, State of Nevada, and she was a 2022 Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets.
Gailmarie Pahmeier has been a Nevadan for over 40 years. Now Emerita, she taught creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Nevada, Reno where she was honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the w88 online casinoUniversity Distinguished Teacher Award. Currently, she teaches poetry in the low residency MFA program at University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe.
Education
- MFA, University of Arkansas, 1983
- B.A., English, Southern Illinois University, 1979