Pam Clark is a teacher, speaker and researcher of history and has written her first novel Kalyna, engaging readers in the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during WW 1. Born and raised in Edmonton, Pamela grew up with the stories of her Canadian born grandmother, whose parents were part of the first wave of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada.   Her great grandparents homesteaded in the Edna Star area near Edmonton until the 1920’s when they moved to Edmonton.  

Through her novel, Kalyna, these family memories are fused with the untold stories of the internment camps at Castle Mountain and Cave and Basin in Banff National Park.  In writing Kalyna, history is respectfully unbound from the archives and shared in this historical fiction novel. 

Kalyna has been met with positive reviews including from Bernice Morgan, writer of Random Passage:

In Kalyna Clark has created an engaging protagonist, together with a plot that grabs and holds the reader's attention. Using family and community history, Clark shines the light of fiction on a period when hundreds of Ukrainians, along with other ethnic groups, were sent into forced labor camps, often leaving wives and children on farms recently hacked out of wilderness. This is a timely novel coming as it does when the propaganda of fear is again being used to dehumanize people who can be identified as Other.

Pam Clark looks forward to exploring how history can unfold and reveal itself to each of us through archival evidence and photographs and a desire to understand what came before. 

Pam is a Calgary author, infusing her passion for history and social issues into her work. As a writing mentor, Pam finds tremendous joy in other’s expression and fulfillment as writers and believes our stories can build connection in our communities and ignite social change.  Her debut novel, Kalyna, won the Canadian Author’s Association Exporting Alberta Award in 2017. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Prairie Journal and magazines such as WestWord. She was honoured to receive the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium’s Canadian Educator of the Year Award in 2023 for ‘The Power of Hope.’