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Pam Houston

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  • Pam Houston

  • 47 / Female
  • Colorado, US
  • Last Login: 1/29/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Dogs, sea kayaking, whole foods, coffee, travel, especially to Asia, music, backpacking, skiing, life

  • Music

    Van Morrison, Counting Crows, Bright Eyes, Phil Roy, Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, The Staple Singers, Jackson Browne, The Neilds

  • Movies

    Lost In Translation, The Last Waltz, Wings of Desire, Heaven Can Wait, Fool For Love, Transamerica

  • Television

    Not a whole lot except Sports Center

  • Books

    Disgrace, Jazz, The Crossing, Wanting Only To Be Heard, Rock Springs

  • Heroes

    Toni Morrison, Linda Morris, Shelton Adams, Barack Obama, Peter Walsh

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking
  • Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
  • Occupation: author, teacher, speaker

Blurbs

About me:

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness (W. W. Norton), which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat (W. W. Norton) which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction.

Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. A collection of essays, A Little More About Me, was published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 1999.

In 2001 she completed a stage play called Tracking the Pleiades which was produced by the Creede Repertory Theater. 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. (Beyond Words, 1996).

Her first novel, Sighthound, will be published by W.W. Norton in January, 2005. Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis and she teaches at many summer writers’conferences and festivals in the US and abroad.

She has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning from time to time doing literary essays on the wilderness, as well as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

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Comments

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  • LunaLuna Taylor

    Oct 25 2008 12:20 AM

    Yay! :-)
  • CindersCindy Boutelle

    May 14 2008 12:47 AM

    I went to the Cowboys Are My Weakness play/adaptation a few nights ago. It was quite possibly the best thing I've done in 2008 so far.

  • MEGAN

    Oct 19 2007 4:19 PM

    Hey Pam,
    I just finished reading Cowboys Are My Weakness for the first time. I am already re-reading it. You inspire me.
  • BrennaBrenna Ryan

    Oct 25 2007 3:08 PM

    Thanks for the add; love your books. I understand you've met my BFF Glenda Drew (she's an art professor at Davis); she's also a beautiful soul.
    Your faithful reader, Brenna
  • ♥Branfrancisco™

    Oct 3 2007 6:46 PM

    Play Off games start in a few minutes- Good Luck to you in the postseason Pam
  • ♥Branfrancisco™

    Oct 8 2007 3:18 AM

    Pam!!! What's with the Rockies!!!??? Two Land locked states fighting it out to the finish- Arizona and Colorado. I think the Rockies are on fire and no one can stop them. My Angels and Dodgers are done for the year.
  • no longer here

    Aug 23 2007 7:26 PM

    Greetings from Oregon

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  • Author Thomas Saint McR…Thomas Saint McReynolds

    Jun 15 2007 4:19 AM

    Hi, Pam: Just wanted to drop in and say hi to a new friend and fellow writer!
    Peace&love
    TSM
  • Sherrisherri belanger

    Jun 7 2007 7:04 PM

    Hi Pam. I took a short-fiction workshop with you at FAWC summer '03. I learned a lot from you in those 3 days: the value of risk-taking, finding inspiration in the everyday things, respecting the unique voices of fellow writers...oh..and what the best tequila tastes like! I continue to reflect upon those lessons in my writing.
    Hope you're groovy! Hugs!
  • ♥Branfrancisco™

    May 16 2007 10:42 PM

    Greetings Pam! Hope you are well.
    Have a great summer- take time for yourself- stop and smell the flowers!
  • ElizabethElizabeth Crane

    May 13 2007 2:28 PM

    Haiku for Pam Houston

    Right now Percy is
    spooning with Ben, my husband
    squinty sleeper dog.
  • noveltown

    May 9 2007 2:06 PM

    Bummer. If we knew you were going to be in Bakersfield, we would have covered the event...Also, stopping by to raise awareness about our new print lit mag, the Noveltown Review.
    Read a review.
    Re-post if you like... - Noveltown
  • ZoeyZoey Smith

    May 4 2007 4:01 PM

    Thanks for the add, and the inspiring stories.
    I look forward to the next one!
  • My Apps page/ nothing p…

    Apr 30 2007 12:40 AM

    Hey Pam, I am a single mom of 3 beautiful girls, I first heard about you when I made the choice to go back to college...I loved writing my essays on your work, and have become a fan. Being a single mom, after being raised traveling in a van and being homeschooled by my parents and traveling the U.S. and parts of canada, I have missed the great outdoors, and I can sit and read your storys and feel like I am on vacation...Thank you for adding me!
  • Shannon

    Apr 7 2007 10:49 AM

    Do most of your conferences have open registration for the public? I'd like to come up for the Port Townsend workshop, but I'm not sure how to/if I can be included.
  • *Su*si**e

    Mar 29 2007 7:52 PM

    Wow...I find it amazing you are accessible to your fans this way!! If you ever need an outdoor guide for Oregon, I'm here for you.
    Lumberjacks are my weakness! :)
  • kanen

    Mar 7 2007 6:03 PM

    Hey Pam,
    Thanks for the add. Maybe someday our hounds can meet.
  • KristinGirl

    Mar 2 2007 6:14 PM

    Hi Pam! I just wanted to say thanks for adding me and thank you again for sending me the 10am book. It was fantastic.
    It was great meeting you in Boulder and I continue to be inspired by your writing!
  • kerri

    Feb 24 2007 4:35 AM

    Thank you for the add!
  • JaneEyreZombieHunter

    Feb 20 2007 3:18 AM

    Hi! Thanks for the add! I really enjoy reading your work - I love your subject matter and style, and now seem to really want to go white water rafting with a reliable river guide, not with the gung-ho macho ones that don't care how the river's feeling.

    I am a student of lit, and read everything from really metafictional stuff to stuff that reads really true. I loved Waltzing the Cat - wow, I really believed she could tame that man at the end. Have you heard of or read Maile Meloy's short stories? She's from Montana - think she's based in California now, and her work has a power and feeling of truth similar to yours.

    I'm a college-workshop level short fiction and short essay writer, but have temporarily put it aside to write academic papers. Researching is a blast, but academic writing doesn't quite fill the need to write fiction.


    Also, I wondered if you like musical artists like Neko Case or Hank Dogs?
  • Sara

    Feb 7 2007 1:30 PM

    Thanks for adding me. I am so honored to get to post your first myspace comment. I am a huge fan who has even been known to travel to CO to hear you speak. As for attending your workshops...hopefully....someday!