Pamela McKeage, a native of St. Louis, is employed full-time managing a law office. She is active in sports, enjoys reading, writing and editing poetry. Her poems are about the basics of life and the many challenges that  people are faced with. Her first poem Life 101 was recently featured on the Poetry.com website. This poem was also published recently in a collection of works titled  "The Colors Of Life".

A large part of Pamela’s focus since January 2003 has been assisting Carol A. Jackson in self publishing Turn Gently My Pages. The prospect of Carol’s very passionate and very personal poetry getting published this year is thrilling says McKeage.

The whole publishing process is new to us. It has been especially arduous when deciding the cover design, page layout and photographs to be used, yet a true labor of love.

On August 17, 2003, Pamela received the "Poet Of Merit" award at the International Society Of Poets conference held in Washington D.C. which was attended by over 2,400 participants Worldwide. She was also awarded a full publishing contract for a 60-80 page book which will feature her unique poetic writings. From the 1800 poets who competed, only ten poets were chosen internationally to receive this publishing award. Here is a picture of Pamela at the award ceremony: