"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.""A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.""A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.""For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.""If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.""Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.""One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.""The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."
Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney. She has made her living as a silkscreen printer, musician and film-maker, has taught writing, multi-media studies and film-making and worked during the 90s as a librarian at University of Sydney. She currently lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
From 1997 to 2002 Pam Brown was the poetry editor of Overland and since 2004 has been the associate editor of Jacket magazine. She has been a guest at poetry festivals worldwide, taught at the University for Foreign Languages, Hanoi, and during 2003 had Australia Council writers residency in Rome.