Pam Houston

Award-winning author

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into eleven languages, and “Waltzing the Cat,” which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction.  Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century.  Her novel, “Sight Hound,” was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.

Pam has recently published fiction and nonfiction in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Bitch in the House, Dog is My Copilot, Some Of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship, The Other Woman, Choice, and the New York Times, Ploughshares, O, and National Geographic Adventure.A collection of autobiographical essays about travel and home, “A Little More About Me,” was published in 1999.  In 2002 her first stage play, Tracking the Pleiades was produced in Colorado.  Houston has edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for Ecco Press called “Women on Hunting,” and written the text for a book of photographs called “Men Before Ten A.M.”

Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at University of California, Davis, and she teaches at many writers’ conferences and festivals in the US and abroad.  When she is not in Davis, she lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.