About
“The best quote on being an LA native comes from Pulizer Prize writer, Kendrick Lamar who said, “They’re not like us.” He’s right.
No one is. LA’s it’s own planet. Rotate on that. –pam ward
• City of Los Angeles Trailblazer poet 2025
• LA Olympian Poet, Paris Olympics 2024
• Founding member Leimert Park Book Festival
• Pushcart Nominee for poetry
• California Poet: selected by CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick
• Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, finalist
• owner, Pam Ward Graphic Design
• Instructor/ Mentor, Art Center College of Design
• California Arts Council Literary Fellow
• Diva Award recipient, Black Women for Wellness
• Board Member: Beyond Baroque
• Board Member: The World Stage
• Artist in Residence: Poets in Schools, Venice High, Manhattan Beach
• Workshop facilitator: California African American Museum, LA Cultural Affairs, World Stage, Art Center College, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts
• Yoga instructor, LA Fitness
LA native, Pam Ward recently released her poetry anthology, “BETWEEN GOOD MEN & NO MAN AT ALL,” World Stage Press.2024. She is also the author of two novels, “WANT SOME GET SOME,” and “BAD GIRLS BURN SLOW,” Kensington, a UCLA graduate, California Arts Council Fellow, Pushcart Poetry Nominee and founding member of the Leimert Park Book Fair. Published in numerous publications, including Voices of Leimert Park, Renaissance Noir and the LA Times, Pam was honored by the LA Department of Cultural Affairs as a Trailblazer writer, 2025 and participated in the first literary Olympics in Paris, 2024. She’s been writer in residence, a board member of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation and The World Stage and conducted workshops for Black Women for Wellness, Art Center College of Design and runs her own community press, Short Dress Press. Her recently completed her first YA novel entitled, STOVES DON’T CRY. Currently, Pam is working on her novel, “I’ll Get You My Pretty,” the true account of her aunt's dalliance in the Black Dahlia murder, an event that occured in Pam's neighborhood.
Articles/Press
Discover Nikkei: Pam Ward’s tribute to LA poet Amy Uyemetsu
Los Angeles Literature “Two Poets & A Bag of Peaches: My Last Day with Lynn Manning by Pam Ward
Sensitive Skin Magazine Reviews Pam Ward’s “Between Good Men & No Man At All”
How to Float: A Poet, The Woman’s Building and Beyond Baroque
A Bird’s Eye View of the Universe: Pam Ward Contemplates James Baldwin
Excerpt from “The Writing Life: 55 years of Beyond Baroque”
Interlitq, California Poets Part 4: Pam Ward