Pamela Jo Keeley

Have a rummage through life in rural Ireland with mustangs, swords and homemade pie

Pamela Jo Keeley is known inside the Colony as PJ

Born in Kansas, USA, I grew up riding my horse to landmarks recognised by Custer and Bill Cody. Graduating with a BS in Journalism, I worked for Japan's version of the BBC in Tokyo. I've been a voice actor, an ad writer, a photographer, an antiques picker, a reading teacher, a house flipper and stager. Now living in a Co. Wexford house with a haunted library inhabited by gaslighting fairies, I preserve rare mustangs with my Swiss husband. Our colleagues are swordfighting actors, stuntriders, lunch-stealing lurchers and befuddled cats. Imagine if we tried as hard to communicate with other earth creatures as we do aliens? My SF book Equivox does.

Get in touch with Pamela Jo

Secrets

1. I had an uncanny ability to make perfect piecrust from age 9.

2. My family moved from prairie to the city with 4 orphaned racoon kits. Their shenanigans made neighbours think us haunted.

3. I began reading early, but couldn't read the same book again. It was as if my brain wouldn't allow the same entry twice.

Favorite People, Places and Things

1. My grandfather who was first generation Irish-American. Born 1889-1979. He had prescient dreams.

Dr's said I'd miscarry but in a dream grandpa told me I'd have a healthy son, name him John-Henry.

2. Chapel of St Francis Xavier, Macau

Before 1997 the chapel was lost amidst banyon trees, bougainvillea and birdsong. At peace with time.

3. An ivory Japanese netsuke of a master teaching his boy apprentice how to carve a netsuke

From a Tokyo charity shop. Chipped and cracked but w a very Edo spirit.