Pamela's illness allowed Carolyn to enter the spotlight that had for so long been focused on her sister. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices that haunted her for years, the symptoms culminating during her freshman year of college at Brown University, where she had her first major breakdown and hospitalization. Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela.
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Computer Science & Information Technology. The art of "pamwagg," which she only just started doing since 2008, may be viewed at her blog:, along with current writing.īorn in Washington, Wagner lived most of her life in Connecticut but has recently moved to Vermont. Wagner is also a prolific self-taught artist. Her second book of poems, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (title tentative) by Cavankerry Press will be released sometime in 2017. WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS IS HER FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, about mental illness. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, LA Weekly and Tikkun among other places. In 2005, she co-authored, with her twin sister, a psychiatrist, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St Martin’s Press, 2005), which won the national NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Despite having spent at least twelve years of her life in psychiatric units, she has won many awards, including a First Place in the 2001/2 International Poetry Competition sponsored by the BBC World Service. 
Her work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, LAĪ writer and artist who lives with diagnoses of schizophrenia and narcolepsy, plus CNS Lyme disease, Pamela Spiro Wagner graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and attended medical school for one year.
A writer and artist who lives with diagnoses of schizophrenia and narcolepsy, plus CNS Lyme disease, Pamela Spiro Wagner graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and attended medical school for one year.
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