PAM HOUSTON

Houston claims for women the terrain staked out by male writers from Hemingway to Richard Ford. — Los Angeles Times

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, DEEP CREEK: FINDING HOPE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY; two novels, CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED and SIGHT HOUND; two collections of short stories, COWBOYS ARE MY WEAKNESS and WALTZING THE CAT; and a collection of essays, A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME, all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century, among other anthologies. Her book, WITHOUT EXCEPTION: RECLAIMING ABORTION, PERSONHOOD, AND FREEDOM, is now out from Torrey House Press.

Houston is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

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