Pam Osbey
Welcome to the world of
love, self-realizations, and spirituality. Musings of a _Mocha
Sista: A Different Flava of _Mocha by Pam Osbey, is a collection
of fifty-poems, personal essays, and short stories. "HoneyEyed"
is an romantic ode to the brothers while "Sistah Please" is
a call to sisters to be strong in what they seek from a mate. Personal
essays like "Loving The Skin You’re In" encourages women
to be proud of their bodies and love themselves while, "Maintaining
Sisterfriends" gives suggestions on how to maintain relationships
through life changes . This is a powerful book that will inspire and uplift
your soul.
Author Bio:
Pam Osbey, author of Musings of a _Mocha Sista: A Different Flava of _Mocha
is a poet who currently teaches spoken word and poetry basics to youth
in Chicago. She began her poetic journey as a part of the grassroots movement
of poetry in Chicago in the mid-1990's where she began to recite poetry
at such Chicago staples as Jazz and Java, Rituals, Some Like It Black,
ETA Theatre, The Reading Room, Center for Inner City Studies, Java Oasis,
The Clique, Jaks’ Tap and The South Shore Cultural Cultural Center.
In 1998 she published her first chapbook and shortly after published an
electronical version of Musings of a _Mocha Sista.
In addition to her poetry performances she began to work in the community with many youth development programs and began to assist with youth poets at South Shore, Kelvyn Park, Orr, and Austin Community High Schools. Many of her students have been published in Spokenvizions Magazine in St. Louis, and Chicago Defender’s Bud Billiken News. She has been featured on several literary e-zines including Rhapsody Publishing, Sisterfriends, Daughters of Eve Network, Disilgold, Ebonylove.net and Motivate A Mind. In 2003 she received 2nd Place in the Spoken Vizions Magazine’s Poet of the Year Contest and most recently the 2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award as sponsored by the Poetry Centerof Chicago.
Ms. Osbey has penned two novels, "Cause I Can" and "When Rainbows Ain’t Enough" stories that chronicles the hilarious and enlightening journeys of sassy and spirited Joie Campbell.
Ms. Osbey holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in English from Grambling State University. She lives in Chicago, IL.
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