Pam Houston

Houston was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her parents were an actress and a businessman.[1] She attended Denison University in Ohio, graduating in 1983 with a BA in English.[1] She held several odd jobs before entering a graduate program at the University of Utah. She took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in the academic year 2002-2003. She currently teaches in the MFA program at U.C. Davis,[9] and at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She directs the nonprofit Writing By Writers which puts on non-university based writing conferences across the American West and in France. Houston currently lives on a ranch at 9,000' above sea level in Colorado, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande River.[10]

• "Cowboys Are My Weakness".[2] Paperback: 171 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press (February 1, 1993), ISBN 978-0671793883[11]
• "Waltzing the Cat".[7] Paperback: 288 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press; First Edition (September 1, 1999), ISBN 978-0671026370[11]
• "A Little More About Me".[4] Paperback: 304 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press (October 1, 2000), ISBN 978-0743406338[11]
• "Sight Hound: A Novel". Paperback: 352 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (January 17, 2006), ISBN 978-0393058178[11]
• "Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel".[6][12] Hardcover: 320 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 6, 2012), ISBN 0393082652, ISBN 978-0393082654[11]
• Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Hardcover: 288 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, (January 29, 2019) ISBN 978-0393241020

B.A. (Denison University, Granville, Ohio) 1983;[1] M.A., University of Utah, 1992; Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction and plays), modernism, contemporary fiction, the short story, wilderness literature[13]

• Official website
• Radio Interview with Pam Houston on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 19)