Porter, Pamela: - Pamela Porter is the author of the multiple award-winning novel The Crazy Man, and two previous volumes of poetry: Stones Call Out, and The Intelligence of Animals. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana and has taught in universities and colleges in the US and Canada. In 1988, pregnant with her first child, Porter and her husband, Rob, travelled to Nicaragua and Guatemala to document the experiences of ordinary people caught in the Contra war and the government-sponsored terror against Guatemalan teachers and aid workers. Later with two children, they worked in Angola and Ghana, where she taught English during the day and at night rode in the back of a small pickup truck, delivering food to homeless children throughout the city of Luanda. Pamela Porter is now a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria and lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, children and a menagerie of rescued animals.