Pamela Wescott

Pamela Wescott has written two memoirs about lifelong losses healed by unexpected turns in relationships. They include Serving Life, about her father dying at home, and chosen by Terry Tempest Williams as a Finalist for the Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Award at Bread Loaf. When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Pam self-published The Love that Shouted for Joy, a collection of vignettes about complications that arose when she and Kathleen decided to marry in 2004. Pam has created a dahlia farm at her home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts with her wife Kathleen and their 12-year-old corgi Isaac. Some of her experience of the West came from bicycling cross-country to go to graduate school at UC Berkeley after getting her BA at Wellesley College.