Pam Fleming (aka pj flaming) won the 1994 national New Muse contest--awarded to poets for their first manuscript of poetry--for Voir Dire (Broken Jaw). Fleming started performing poetry in the Carnegie Centre with the Vancouver Downtown Eastside poets in the 1980s. She has performed at arts festivals, in libraries, union halls, museums, and on the BC Ferries. She has worked for End Legislated Poverty.

[BCBW 2003]