Pamela Hirschler’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Still: The Journal, The Heartland Review, The Pikeville Review, and Talking River. She has also been published in the anthologies Her Limestone Bones, This Wretched Vessel, and Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky.

Pamela was a 2018 finalist for The Heartland Review’s Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize.

She holds a BA in English from Morehead State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Drew University. She is past president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society and a member of the Gatehouse Poets and the Green River Writers.

After a 25-year career in information technology, Pamela lives with her husband in Frankfort, Kentucky.

What Lies Beneath is available from Finishing Line Press.

"Sweet melancholy is the quality that embodies Pam Hirschler‘s new collection, What Lies Beneath".
— Mary O’Dell, founder of Green River Writers, author of Poems for the Man who Weighs Light.

"Hirschler’s work offers us fiercely lyrical, adroit examinations of our ontological plight, how we are possessed by the relentless past and haunted by our mortal condition."
— George Eklund, Poet, Translator, and Professor Emeritus of Morehead State University

"Page after page, Hirschler shows us that memory is not unlike a family photo album where we recognize the figures as shades of themselves, but it is up to us to keep their stories alive."
— Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Affrilachian Poet, Author of Black Mermaid