Pamela Bond is currently serving as a professor in the Department of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. In addition to composition, she teaches humanities, creative writing, business/technical writing, modern American literature, and women’s literature. She has been teaching college English since 2011. She has also worked with the creative writing nonprofit Writers in the School (WITS) and the TRiO program Upward Bound.

Pamela earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and she spent part of graduate school career studying at Syracuse University’s campus in Florence, Italy. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism writing from the University of North Texas. She also holds a certificate in international journalism from the International Scholar Laureate Program, awarded while reporting in Australia.

In addition to her work in the classroom, Pamela has extensive experience as a writer/reporter and editor. She worked as an editor for Medical Discovery News; a reporter for newspapers in Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Victoria, and Washington, D.C.; a contributor to National Public Radio (NPR); and press assistant at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

A native of Corpus Christi, Pamela now loves to travel when she is not teaching and has been to dozens of countries on five continents. She loves to spend her free time reading books and playing with her god-daughter, Ariel, and her dog, Margo.