Pamela Smith Hill, editor and annotator of Pioneer Girl

Pamela Smith Hill is the award-winning author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life and three young adult novels. She grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, forty miles from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Rocky Ridge Farm, and moved to South Dakota, where she launched her professional writing career. She has taught creative and professional writing at universities in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. She lives in Portland, OR, where she continues to teach and write.