Pam Schindler is an Australian poet living by the sea in Blackmans Bay, Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies and in her two collections, ‘A sky you could fall into’ (Post Pressed, 2010) and ‘say, a river’ (Ginninderra Press, 2023).
Pam graduated with an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Queensland and worked as a reference librarian at both the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland. Pam is a Hawthornden Fellow, receiving a writer’s residency at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, in 2013. In 2020, she was commended in the WB Yeats Prize (Australia). In 2021, she took part as one of 23 Tasmanian poets in the Poetry for a More Than Human World project, led by Kristen Lang, and was a featured poet in the 2024 Tasmanian Poetry Festival.
In 2025, Pam was awarded the Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry at the Tasmanian Literary Awards.
