About Pam Brown

Pam Brown (1948 – ) was born in Seymour, Victoria, but since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney. She has made her living as a musician and film-maker, has taught writing, multi-media studies and film-making and worked during the 90s as a librarian at University of Sydney. From 1997 to 2002 Pam Brown was the poetry editor of Overland and since 2004 has been the associate editor of Jacket magazine. She has been a guest at poetry festivals world-wide, taught at the University for Foreign Languages, Hanoi, and during 2003 undertook an Australia Council writers residency in Rome. Her publications contain more than a dozen poetry collections, from the early Sureblock (1972) to the volume of selected poems Dear Deliria (2003) and her most recent book Peel Me a Zibbibo (2006).

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