Pamela Courtney

Pamela Courtney has three loves: writing, teaching, and music. She combined these passions, creating MyLMNOP, a valuable literacy and music program for early learners. With a B.S., nearly three decades as an early childhood practitioner, literacy curriculum consultant, elementary teacher, and homeschooling auntie, Pamela’s enthusiasm for sharing exceptional books in communities lacking quality literacy programming grew.

Introducing children to well-written literature, whose images mirror those of her learners, is paramount. “My duty is great,” states Pamela. “I am a writer who teaches. I am a teacher who writes.”

Pamela lives in Natchitoches, Louisiana, where she homeschools her brilliant nephews and facilitates her literacy program, MyLMNOP (My Literature-Music-Naming-Oral language-Phonics). Pamela was honored to have received the Walter Dean Myers Grant Award, mentorships from We Need Diverse Books, Writing with the Stars, and the Highlights Foundation Fellowship for Children’s Writers. She is overjoyed and grateful for such professional development opportunities that allowed her great growth as a writer and teacher.

She writes for the picture book–aged kiddos in rhyming picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and historical fiction. However, her voice also swings toward an older audience as she offers verse poetry (middle grade novel in verse), and graphic novels. Pamela hopes to bring the eyes of a classroom teacher to each narrative she crafts, as she engages children in history, folklore, magic, and the mysticism of her rural Louisiana culture.