Pamela K. Fisher, M.A.

Storytelling Coach

Los Angeles, California

A 14-year major metro journalist: San Francisco, Cincinnati and South Florida. USA Today Network Storytelling Coach. Graduate degree in literary journalism/creative nonfiction.

Pamela K. Fisher, M.A.

Storytelling Coach

Los Angeles, California

A 14-year major metro journalist: San Francisco, Cincinnati and South Florida. USA Today Network Storytelling Coach. Graduate degree in literary journalism/creative nonfiction.

Long Weekend: Leelanau Peninsula
In the pinkie finger of Michigan’s mitten is a fertile, 45th-parallel vintner paradise. A drive up the spine of M-37 on the Old Mission Peninsula reveals panoramic views of the Leelanau Peninsula and indigo flashes of Grand Traverse Bay. Orchards and vineyards zigzag across sunny hilltops, while deep shadows fall over the hollow sculpted by a mile-high glacier that melted and left Lake Michigan, as well as the microclimates that make winegrowing magic.
Cincinnati Magazine
Crowdsourcing Cincinnati's Child Poverty Challenge
Over 700 educators, parents, nonprofit leaders, retired corporate leaders, social workers and others gathered at Duke Convention Center Oct. 29 to brainstorm community solutions and public policy changes to shift the dynamic of child poverty in the city. Cincinnati has the sixth highest rate of child poverty in the nation with 33,069 children living in poverty (a household income below $19,073 for a family of three).
Soapbox
OCEAN accelerator, Unpolished expand to include Agora trainingGCF funds OCEAN accelerator retreats, mentor tools
Cincinnati is ranked as one of the fastest growing startup communities. Judging by the 300 or so, mostly millennial, aspiring and established entrepreneurs mingling and sipping craft beer in Oakley on a late October evening, the scene is positively robust.
Soapbox
Bay House on the bayou
Tucked away on a bayou off 41, Bay House has charmed diners for three decades with its cozy bonfire blazing in a twinkle-lit garden grove and waterfront decks over the Cocohatchee River. We came on a Saturday night in the wake of an earsplitting storm that took out a power line up the road and left the restaurant powerless hours before opening.
Naples Daily News
Wake Up to Sleeping Bear
Cincinnati Enquirer
Campiello: Regional Italian, champagne al fresco
The champagne bar at Campiello was abuzz on a Tuesday summer evening at 5:30 p.m. And why not? French champagne Perrier Jouet was going for $5 a pop. We sank our noses into the froth and breathed deeply. While the bright citrusy notes are more acidic than I prefer in my champagne, this is luxury sipping on the cheap.
Naples Daily News
Midtown Kitchen brings urban hipster vibe to Naples
It’s all about the scene at Midtown Kitchen, a brand new entry to the Naples restaurant scene. It emanates a young, hipster vibe in its thumping, danceable soundtrack and just three weeks after opening, there wasn’t an empty table in sight on a Friday evening. The look is urban loft in its exposed ductwork, painted brick and wide plank wood floors.
The News-Press
Magical Masa
I'd wandered into Masa one Sunday evening, blissed-out from my massage at a neighboring Mercato shop, in search of an authentic Baja fish taco. I had to blink twice. A dreamy midnight-sky wall was spangled with stars and a luminous Lady in the Moon. Lush, rain forest vegetation sprouted from another wall.
Savory Sea Salt
Sea Salt: The very name conjures up polished brass nautical accessories, knotted ropes, burnished wood plank interiors. Not so much. This sophisticated staple of Old Naples downtown dining evokes luxe Mediterranean yachting. Enter to the trickle of a granite waterscape, lush with potted succulents and tropical foliage.
Naples Daily News
Chops, it's all in the sizzle
We’d heard a lot about this steak house from locals and friends up north who called it their go-to steak house. We’re from Cincinnati, a serious steakhouse town like many other Great Lakes cities that came of age during the 19th century industrial age boom. And we like our steaks dry aged and well-seasoned.
Naples Daily News
A toast to wine dinners
Naples News
REVIEW: Time trip back to ‘63 in ‘Dirty Dancing’
From the opening line it's clear "Dirty Dancing" is all about time-tripping, a vicarious dip into memory's pool to the summer of 1963. Rachel Boone took the spotlight at Artis— Naples on Tuesday night to set the stage. "It was the summer of 1963, before Kennedy got shot, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, when I was called Baby and it didn't occur to me to mind."

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Pamela K. Fisher, M.A.

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Storytelling Coach. Major metro cultural critic and journalist of 14 years in San Francisco, Cincinnati and South Florida.

Graduate degree in literary journalism/creative nonfiction. Former senior acquisitions editor, innovation team leader at Fortune 500 publisher, HarperCollins/HarperFaith.

Skilled writing coach and journalism faculty:
•feature writing
•media ethics
•newswriting and reporting
•health reporting
• arts and culture writing
•public affairs reporting
•religion, faith, spirituality reporting

Reporting specialties:
•food and wine writing metros, magazines
•travel writing for national magazines
•arts & culture editor and theater critic