{"id":14,"date":"2022-12-17T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:29:14","slug":"about-pam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/about-pam\/","title":{"rendered":"About Pam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-style-default\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169-746x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-492 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169-746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169-768x1054.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169-1119x1536.jpg 1119w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pam-Meyer-smile-yellow-scaled-e1752355645169.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Official Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pamela Ruth Meyer is a multi-award-winning author of historical mysteries entwined with love stories.<\/strong>&nbsp;A longtime high school forensic science teacher, she honed clever ways to crack cases in the classroom\u2014a creative spark she now channels into her fiction. Her investigative flair comes alive in adventurous tales featuring a crime-fighting duo unlike any other. Pamela is also an active member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Romance Writers of America, and the Historical Novel Society, reflecting her deep engagement with the mystery, romance, and historical fiction communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Pamela\u2019s debut manuscript,&nbsp;<em>Death in Miniature<\/em>, swept multiple writing awards. It won the Romance Writers of America\u2019s Golden Heart Award (Love Across Genres category), the Mystery Writers of America\u2013New York Leon Burstein Award for aspiring writers, the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery\/Suspense (unpublished Romantic Suspense division), and the Chesapeake Romance Writers\u2019 \u201cRudy\u201d Award for best romantic suspense manuscript.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Death in Miniature<\/em>\u00a0was also honored as Runner-Up in Book Pipeline\u2019s 2024 Unpublished contest (Mystery\/Thriller category) and as one of the Judges\u2019 Top Picks for the 2025 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Suspense. Most recently, Pamela\u2019s work placed third in the RWA Hearts Through History Chapter\u2019s Romance Through the Ages Contest (Post-Victorian\/World Wars\/Modern unpublished division). These accolades firmly establish her as a promising new voice in historical mystery fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Website:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pamelaruthmeyer.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Facebook:<\/strong>&nbsp;Facebook.com\/pamelaruthmeyer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Instagram:<\/strong>&nbsp;@pamelaruthmeyer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>BlueSky:<\/strong>&nbsp;pamelaruthmeyer.bsky.social<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Representation:<\/strong>&nbsp;Terrie Wolf \u2013 AKA Literary Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 32%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>I grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, climbing trees and defending the appendages of daddy long-legs spiders from meanies intent on pulling one off simply to watch it wriggle about. Nearing the end of my first decade, my family moved to the suburbs of New York City, where my mother was a financial journalist for the Wall Street Journal, a woman ahead of her time. My father was an engineer\/estimator for a top NYC construction company. My little sister was my companion through childhood and beyond, and it is because of her that I learned what it feels like to never be truly alone.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-baby-Josephine-e1671753298835.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-baby-Josephine-e1671753298835.png 549w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-baby-Josephine-e1671753298835-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-baby-Josephine-e1671753298835-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 24%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Horses had stolen my heart as a child, so it\u2019s no surprise that my first career was as a horse trainer and riding instructor. But after 20 years of living in the horse world, I hungered for something a bit more cerebral. I returned to graduate school to study biological anthropology and graduated summa cum laude from CUNY\u2019s Hunter College. My credentials opened the door to my teaching career, which I started as an adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology. One morning on the subway headed to St. Joseph\u2019s University in Brooklyn, a sign asking if you remembered the name of your second-grade teacher caught my eye. I did all these years later\u2014it was Miss Pendergrass! She made an impact. The sign called for people to become NYC teachers. Inspired, I did so, coming to serve as high-school science teacher for the next twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Now I embark on a third career, this time as a writer. My first manuscript is out in the world, taking its baby steps toward becoming published.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pamela-Ruth-Meyer-headshot-best-021-soften-smaller.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-496 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pamela-Ruth-Meyer-headshot-best-021-soften-smaller.png 446w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pamela-Ruth-Meyer-headshot-best-021-soften-smaller-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-on-Horse-582x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-on-Horse-582x1024.png 582w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-on-Horse-170x300.png 170w, https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pam-on-Horse.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, climbing trees and defending the appendages of daddy long-legs spiders from meanies intent on pulling one off simply to watch it wriggle about. Nearing the end of my first decade, my family moved to the suburbs of New York City, where my mother was a financial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/about-pam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Pam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaruthmeyer.com\/welcome!\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}