Pamela Michael's books include The Gift of Rivers, A Woman's Passion for Travel, and A Mother's World: Journeys of the Heart. In her youth, she crossed the US several times, by thumb, rail, bus and car, sometimes with her infant son in tow (and often her Irish wolfhound as well). She didn't leave the continent until she was over forty, but has made up for lost time, visiting over thirty countries in the last decade.

An award-winning radio producer, Pam hosts a travel show on KPFA-fm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wrote and produced a nationally-broadcast, four-part series on Buddhism, which was narrated by Richard Gere.

She is director and co-founder (with Robert Hass) of River of Words, a non-profit international children's arts and environmental education organization, and also oversees Young at Art, one of the first art galleries devoted exclusively to children’s art. Her most recent book, River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water (Heyday Books 2003), won the prestigious Skipping Stones Award for best nature or ecology book of the year. 

Pam conducts writing workshops around the country.  Learn more at www.riverofwords.org.