Pamela Greenberg has an M.F.A. from Syracuse University and a Masters in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College. She has received several writing awards, including a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a fellowship at the Writer’s Room of Boston, a University Fellows award at Syracuse, and a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including The Green Mountains Review, The Missouri Review, and Shankpainter.
She received the award in Hebrew Literature at Hebrew College and spent a year in rabbinical school before deciding to focus more fully on writing. As part of her rabbinical school training, she spent a year working as a hospital chaplain. An excerpt from her psalm translation appeared in the “Book World” section of the Washington Post, and interviews with her have been broadcast on PBS’ Religion and Ethics and Newsweekly and on PBS’ NewsHour website. Her book, The Complete Psalms: The Book of Prayer Songs in a New Translation, was published in April, 2010 by Bloomsbury.
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