Pam Ward

LA native, Pam Ward recently released her poetry anthology, “BETWEEN GOOD MEN & NO MAN AT ALL,” World Stage Press and is the author of novels, “WANT SOME GET SOME,” Kensington and “BAD GIRLS BURN SLOW,” Kensington. A UCLA graduate, California Arts Council Fellow and Pushcart Poetry Nominee, Pam is also a founding member of the Leimert Park Book Fair. Published in numerous publications, including Voices of Leimert Park, New York’s Renaissance Noir and the LA Times, she was recently honored by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs in 2025 as the city’s Trailblazer writer. In 2024, Pam participated in the first Poetry Olympics in Paris and has been writer in residence and a board member of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation as well as The World Stage in Leimert. Pam conducted workshops for Black Women for Wellness, Art Center College of Design, the California African American Museum and runs a design business as well as the community press, Short Dress Press. She’s the program director for the feminist political poetry troupe, THE OVARY OFFICE which showcased at the LA Festival of books in 2019. She recently completed a YA novel, STOVES DON’T CRY and the historical novel, “I’ll Get You My Pretty,” based on her family’s role in Central Ave and the Black Dahlia Murder. www.pamwardwriter.com