About the Author

Pamela Spiro Wagner is an award-winning writer, artist and poet. In 2001/2, she shared a First Place in the BBC World Service Meridian Writings International Poetry Competition, judged by Nobelist Wole Soyinke, for her poem The Prayers of the Mathemetician. With her twin sister, a psychiatrist, Wagner co-authored the popular memoir, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St Martins Press, 2005), which won the national NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Her first book of poems, We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders, published by Cavankerry Press in 2009, was a finalist for Poetry Book of the Year in Foreword Reviews magazine. Wagner is also an entirely self-taught artist who started making art, and doing it nearly non-stop, in 2008, after the miracle of a small brain bleed. Two of her life-size papier mache sculptures are on permanent exhibit at the Norwich, Co