Professor Painter is the author of two collections of short fiction, Getting to Know the Weather and The Long and Short of It. She is the co-author, with Anne Bernays, of the acclaimed textbook, WHAT IF? Fiction Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, and Story, and been reprinted in numerous anthologies..  Her stories have also been produced on NPR’s Morning Stories, and by  Word Theatre.   She is a founding editor of StoryQuarterly, and has received grants from the Massachusetts’ Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and  is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes.

Pam Painter would like to conduct the FICTION OR CREATIVE NONFICTION manuscript critique by phone.  Maximum length of manuscript is 25 pages.