Pam Bustin was born at the old Grey Nun’s hospital in Regina SK and raised in a host of small towns across the prairies. She currently lives MOSTLY in Saskatoon with a lovely man and 10,000 books - though she still tends to wander.

Pam’s novel, Mostly Happy (www.thistledownpress.com), won the First Book and Fiction awards at the 16th Annual Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2008.
It has been called “…a gritty, realistic work of fiction set in western Canada. A coming-of-age story akin to Tobias Wolff's memoir, This Boy's Life, and Janet Fitch's White Oleander.” (Canadian Review of Materials Volume XIV Number 22).

Pam is thrilled that Mostly Happy has been short-listed for the 2010 Ontario Library Association’s White Pine™ Reading Program. Mostly Happy is also included in the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association's YA Top Forty Fiction titles for 2008 and has been long-listed for the 2010 - 2011 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Award.

Pam’s play Saddles in the Rain had its world premiere at 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon, won the John V. Hicks Manuscript Award and is published in the anthology The West of all Possible Worlds. Her other stage plays include barefoot and The Passage of Georgia O'Keeffe which have travelled to Fringe Theatre Festivals across Canada. Three of her radio dramas (Coffee in Lloyd, The White Car Project and Talking with the Dead) have aired nationally on the CBC and her fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Cahoots Magazine, Spring! and Transitions.

Pam loves meeting and working with other writers. She has served as a teacher/mentor for the Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, 25th Street Theatre, Tamara’s House, Nutana Collegiate, the Aboriginal Youth Playwrights Festival and at her alma mater, Scott Collegiate, in Regina. She currently serves on Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre’s Dramaturgical Committee, where she reads and responds to new plays by members.

Her raison d'être? As Mark Vonnegut said to his father Kurt, “We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
So it goes…