Pamela Annas grew up in the Navy, lived for two years in a village in Turkey and graduated from high school in Yokohama, Japan.  She is Professor Emerita of English at UMass/Boston where she taught working-class literature, modern and contemporary poetry and writing, coached UMB's ballroom dance team and directed its English MA Program.  She is a member of the editorial collective and poetry editor at Radical Teacher, and has published books and articles on poetry, literature, and pedagogy, and poems in various journals and anthologies.  Her chapbook Mud Season was published by Cervena Barva Press.