The trauma Pamela Gay experienced as a teen-witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and taken to a state mental hospital-was compounded after her parents left her at her college dorm and moved nine states away. Decades later, Gay explores issues of abandonment and other ramifications of her father's mental illness, including volatile relationships with her mother and much older siblings.
The trauma Pamela Gay experienced as a teen-witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and taken to a state mental hospital-was compounded after her parents left her at her college dorm and moved nine states away. Decades later, Gay explores issues of abandonment and other ramifications of her father's mental illness, including volatile relationships with her mother and much older siblings.
Pamela Gay is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) award in creative nonfiction and an Independent eBook Award for her memoir Homecoming, which combined text, image, and sound. An installation based on this memoir and sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) included artifacts. Gay's writing has been published in Brevity, Iowa Review, Paterson Literary Review, Midway Journal, Monkeybicycle, Grey Sparrow, Vestal Review, and other literary journals, as well as two anthologies. Gay is a professor emerita at Binghamton University, State University of New York, where she taught courses in flash memoir and flash fiction. She lives in Upstate New York.
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