Pam Uschuk is editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and a professor of Creative Writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Uschuk's literary prizes include the the Struga International Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council for Finding Peaches in the Desert, The King's English Prize, as well as the American Book Award and awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, Iris, Ascent, Sandhills Review, and Amnesty International. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, including Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Macedonian, Swedish, Russian, and Spanish.