Mary Pember is an independent journalist based in Cincinnati who covers Native American issues and culture, with special focus on women's issue for various publications. As an Ojibwe woman from Wisconsin, her work is infused with her own perspective. She worked as a daily newspaper photographer in her former life for about 15 years for publications such as The Arizona Republic, The Oregonian, and others. She worked on a book, part memoir, part history/science about the epigenetic impact of Indian boarding school trauma on contemporary Native peoples.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Mary Annette Pember
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Cincinnati, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
More:
www.mapember.com
Studios
Phi Beta
Mary Annette Pember worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…