Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as 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. She 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. Author photo by Mike Blakeman.
Pam Houston

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Polar Plunge
“THREE . . . TWO . . . ONE!” Tara yelled, and on “Go!” I flung my sixty-year-old body into the air—bare arms raised, palms to the sky, bare legs kicked Continue reading
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Radiant Thinking: A Conversation between Pam Houston and Camille T. Dungy
In which Pam and Camille discuss Camille’s new book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. Pam Houston: This book is structured a little like a garden in which the Continue reading
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For as Many Days as We Have Left
This essay is included in Earthly Love: Stories of Intimacy and Devotion from Orion Magazine. Continue reading