Pamela L LaskinPamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at the City College of New York, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Ms. Laskin started out as a poet; consequently, hundreds of her poems have been published as well as four poetry capbooks. Grand Central Station, a full-length collection, was published in 2003, and since that time Remembering Fireflies (Plain View Press), Secrets of Sheets (Plain View Press), Ghosts, Goblins, Gods, Geodes (World Audience, Inc.), Van Gough's Ear (Cervena Barva Press) and Daring Daughters/Defiant Dreams (A Gathering of Tribes) have been published. Publish America recently published a book of children's poetry that she co-authored with Ms. Jeanette Adams, a well-known African American children's poet, and also Ms. Elise Buchman, Animal Crackers and Their Friends. Tudor Press published Getting to Know You, a YA novel, in 2003, and Diversion Press published Visitation Rites, an expansion of a young adult story originally published in Sassy magazine. Her published children's books include Wish upon a Star: A Story for Children with a Parent Who Is Mentally Ill (Magination Press); Historical Heroic Horses (McGraw-Hill); Music from the Heart (Bantam) and The Buried Treasure (McGraw-Hill). Dozens of her short stories have been published, too, including two YA stories, one in Young Miss and the other in Sassy. She edited two collections: The Heroic Young Woman (2006), a collection of original feminist fairy tales, and Life on the Moon: My Best Friend's Secrets (Linus Publication), a collection of young adult fiction. Academic interests (aside from children's literature and writing and poetry) include fairy tales (a sub-genre of children's literature) and creative fiction and nonfiction. Read More Read Less