Pamela Coy studies and teaches spirituality from various perspectives, believing the spirit calls to the creativity and artist in all of us. She has a 2006 Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Creation Spirituality, now Wisdom University, and a 1982 Master of Divinity degree from Iliff School of Theology in Denver and a 1972 B. A. in history from University of California, Los Angeles.

Since 1982 she has been an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church in Northern California.

Ultimately her home is in Oro Fino, in the far north of California, with her husband Earl. She is surrounded by, and often taught by, a dog, cats and wild creatures of all sorts.