Pamela Swanigan
Editor
Pamela Swanigan is a lifelong writer, editor, songwriter, singer, and biophiliac. E.O. Wilson is her hero, and she’ll fight anyone who says sociobiology is some kind of eugenicist plot. (She won’t really, but she wishes she would.) She has a PhD in why Children’s Lit authors are brilliant and academics are odious, and a masters degree in why African Americans don’t get along with Jamaican Americans. She herself is, as her witty husband puts it, “halfrican American”, as well as being both Canadian and American, both urban (Oakland) and rural (the West Kootenays), both highbrow (poetry) and lowbrow (Gogglebox). Since starting her professional writing career at the age of 18, she has written for Saturday Night, the Chicago Tribune, and the Toronto Star, among others, and has been an on-staff editor at the Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, the Vancouver Sun, and Eye Weekly magazine. She’s all wore out on writing and now she just wants to edit.
