Pamela Holm
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MacAdam/Cage
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, is The Night Garden ; she has also written a memoir, The Toaster Broke, So We're Getting Married. Ms. Holm, with composer Jim Fournadis, wrote and produced a musical comedy entitled, Lovesick - the Cat Allergy Musical. As an essayist, her writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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, The Denver Post, Fresh Yarn, Violet Magazine and various other publications. She is currently working on her third novel and preparing for the second production of Lovesick.
Biography
Pamela has traveled extensively, both in the U.S. and abroad; before arriving in San Francisco, she lived in New ZealandNew Zealand
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and San Jose
San Jose, California
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, California.
Her pre-literary résumé includes painting needlepoint patterns, installing neon signage, designing luggage, enlarging photos from weapons tests sites, decorating sets for rap videos, and sewing hats for the Pillsbury Doughboy
Pillsbury Doughboy
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.
She has one daughter, currently attending school at Oberlin College
Oberlin College
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in Ohio.
The Night Garden
A story of love, lust, and pest control, set against the changing seasons of San Francisco- Hardcover, 2005; ISBN 1-59692-118-8; MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Lovesick
The cat allergy musical !- Musical theatre; first produced in July 2005 at the Darkroom Theatre in San Francisco.
The Toaster Broke, So We're Getting Married
- Hardcover, 2002; ISBN 1-931561-12-5; MacAdam/Cage Publishing
- Trade Paper, 2002; ISBN 0-8129-7025-X; Random House/Villard
Trivia
- Pamela hosts a weekly radio show at Pirate Cat RadioPirate Cat RadioPirate Cat Radio is a low power community radio station that has been broadcasting since April 1996, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is one of several unlicensed radio stations operating in the San Francisco Bay Area....
, San Francisco's venerable underground radio station. The broadcast, "Pixie's Bordello," can be heard every Friday from 4-6 pm PST; her on-air handle is "DJ Pixie."