Pamela Pan, Ph.D., professor of composition, literature, and reading. Author, fiction and non-fiction.
Pamela Pan is the author of Tasting Moments (Finishing Line Press), a poetry collection rooted in personal history and resonant with universal truths. The poems capture small yet powerful moments that shape us, celebrating memory, family, resilience, and love’s healing strength.
Pamela is an English professor at San Joaquin Delta College. She holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Davis, a master’s degree in bilingual/ES studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
Pamela has received a fellowship to the Community of Writers Summer Writing Workshop. She is also an alumna of Napa Writer’s Conference. Her work has been praised by authors such as Gail Tsukiyama and Lan Samantha Chang.
Pamela’s story “Baba’s Accordion” was published in California Writers Club’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Vision and Verse, Center of Attention, and The Fire Within. Her articles “Turning Family History into a Historical Novel” and “Finding the Soul of a Place” are featured on the Historical Novel Society North America website.
A lover of movement and language, Pamela finds her best metaphors while in motion—whether through the slow grace of Tai Chi or long walks accompanied by the voices of other writers.