And Then You Apply Ice: Stories
by Pamela Gwyn Kripke
















About the bookAbout the authorOrder

Pamela Gwyn Kripke is a journalist and author whose stories have appeared in publications including The New York TimesThe Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning NewsThe Huffington PostSlateSalonMediumNew York MagazineParentingElleD MagazineCreators SyndicateGannett Newspapers and McClatchy. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published or are forthcoming in FolioThe Concrete Desert ReviewThe Barcelona ReviewBrilliant Flash FictionBook of MatchesThe MacGuffinMeet Me At 19thThe Woven Tale PressUnderwiredDoubleback Review and Round Table Literary Journal.

Her novel, At the Seams, received the Arch Street Press First Chapter Award and was excerpted in Embark and West Trade Review.

Pamela holds an AB in English from Brown University and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and was selected to attend the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for Summer 2022. She began her career as a television reporter in Biloxi, Mississippi, covering shrimp fishing and the Dixie mafia, among other topics. Pamela has taught journalism at DePaul University and Columbia College in Chicago and has held various magazine editorships in New York and Dallas. Born in Manhattan, she grew up in the city’s northern suburbs and currently lives outside Philadelphia. She has two daughters and one rescued terrier.


And Then You Apply Ice: Stories
​The women and girls in these twenty-one stories encounter hurt—to their emotions, bodies, beliefs and ideas—confronting who they are or will become. 
Books by Pamela Gwyn Kripke
Pamela Gwyn Kripke
Pamela Gwyn Kripke
At the Seams
​Piecing together the fabric of a family's loss.
At the Seams by Pamela Gwyn Kripke
And Then You Apply Ice: Stories by Pamela Gwyn Kripke