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Pamella Smith began writing after a breakdown on a massage table led to a creative breakthrough. For months afterward, Pamella woke in the night to write what would become her allegorical novel, THE POND. Following that, she completed a full-length work of contemporary women’s fiction, THE DEVIL IN DUNWOODY, about the shoplifting wife of a wealthy, sexually sadistic, cardiac surgeon. Pamella’s writing palette is rich and vivid. Her novel-in-progress, THE SACRED SCENT OF SULLY LEE, is about a woman’s life-long obsession to find a brother who walked out on the family.

Pamella is a member of award-winning poet and novelist Rosemary Daniell’s Atlanta Alpha Babes creative writing workshop, Zona Rosa. As co-founder of PamKat Productions, along with Kathleen McGuire, a fellow Zona Rosan, Pamella has written a musical parody on Oklahoma, ZONA ROSA THE MUSICAL, based on Rosemary’s latest book, SECRETS OF THE ZONA ROSA: How Writing and Sisterhood Can Change Women’s Lives (Henry Holt and Company: 2006.) Pamkat’s next work? THE ZONA ROSA GOSPEL HOUR, and HAIRLESS: Midlife, the Musical.

Born in Savannah, the daughter of a neurotic mother and an outrageously creative father, Pamella dismissed the honor of a high school English award in favor of the security of a piano scholarship. She received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and spent the next twenty-five years teaching piano—at first traditionally, then by the Suzuki Piano Method.

Between the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood, she maintained a large teaching studio, traveled to Japan to study piano with a master teacher, organized numerous local and international workshops, and wrote articles for professional magazines such as Suzuki World and Piano Basics.

Pamella’s travel interests have taken her to countries as diverse as Israel, Jordan, Mexico, and Greece. For the past half dozen years, she has traded her culinary skills for enrollment in writing workshops in France and Italy.

In addition to piano teaching, Pamella has taught water aerobics to seniors, managed a wine store, sold pianos, and had a job as a wine rep. She loves to work out at the YMCA, where she cross-trains by swimming, kickboxing, weight lifting, and aerobic walks from there to Starbucks.

Pamella Smith lives in Atlanta with her husband Mike and assorted people and pets who drift in and out of their household.