Chocolate Lily Award, 2005, Long-listed, Sky.

Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice - Best of the List, 2005, Commended, Sky.

Governor General's Literary Awards: Text, 2005, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Texas Institute of Letters Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Y, 2005, Winner, The Crazy Man.

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, 2006, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2006, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2006, Short-listed, The Crazy Man.

TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, 2006, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Hackmatack Award, 2007, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2007, Winner, The Crazy Man.

OLA Golden Oak Award, 2007, Winner, The Crazy Man.

Rocky Mountain Book Award, 2007, Winner, The Crazy Man.

CBA Libris Award - Children's Author of the Year, 2006, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

Chocolate Lily Award, 2006, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, 2006, Short-listed, The Crazy Man.

SYRCA Snow Willow Award, 2006, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

Michigan Reading Association's "Great Lakes Great Books", 2007, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

OLA Silver Birch Award, 2007, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

Children's Crown Award, 2007, Long-listed, The Crazy Man.

CCBC Our Choice (Starred Selection), 2006, Commended, The Crazy Man.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Books for Older Children, 2006, Commended, The Crazy Man.

OLA Best Bets - Top 10 Fiction , 2006, Commended, The Crazy Man.

IBBY Honor List, 2008, Commended, The Crazy Man.

New Mexico Book Awards - Children's Picture Book, 2009, Winner, Yellow Moon, Apple Moon.

Governor General's Literary Awards: Illustration, 2008, Short-listed, Yellow Moon, Apple Moon.

CCBC Choices Best of Year, 2012, I'll Be Watching.

BC Book Prize Shortlist, 2012, I'll Be Watching.

Pamela Porter was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she lived in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Washington and Montana before emigrating to Canada with her husband, the fourth generation of a farm family in southeastern Saskatchewan, the backdrop for much of Pamela's work. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals across Canada and the US as well as being featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. She is also the author of a number of children’s books, including Sky and Yellow Moon, Apple Moon (illustrated by Matt James).

Pamela's first novel in verse, The Crazy Man, received the TD Children's Literature Award, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the Governor General's Award, as well as several children's choice awards. It was also named a Jane Addams Foundation Honor Book and won the Texas Institute of Letters, Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Young Adult Book.

Pamela lives near Sidney, B.C., with her husband, children and a menagerie of rescued horses, dogs and cats.