Pam Houston, writer

author Pam Houston; photo credit: Adam Karsten

Pam Houston is the award winning author of books including Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the Cat, A Little More About Me, and Sight Hound.

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.

Pam teaches in the graduate writing program at University of California, Davis.

Updated Dates: Pam’s Upcoming Appearances

May and June, 2012

5/12  Writer’s Forum, river expedition and reading, Grand Junction, CO.  River Trip: all day through Professor Valley sign up: westerncoloradowriters.org   Reading only: 7:30  CMU South Ballroom  

5/13 Creative Conferences Keynote Speech, Chautauqua Park, The Grand Assembly, Chautauqua Park, The Grand Assembly 4:00 pm  Boulder, CO

5/15 Center for the Arts, 7:00 pm  Grass Valley, CA

5/16  Reading with Greg Glazner.  Reading by Professor Len and the Big Night.  Shine Cafe, 8:00 pm.  Sacramento, CA

5/18 The Gallery Bookshop, 6:30, Mendocino, CA

5/21 Bloomsbury Books,  7:00pm  With the marvelous Cheryl Strayed.  Ashland, Oregon

5/22 Corvallis-Benton County Public Library (cosponsored by the Library and Grass Roots Books and Music),  With the marvelous Cheryl Strayed 7:00, Corvallis, OR

5/26  Book People, with the lovely Stacy Bierlein, 7:00, Austin, TX

6/5  Pen On Fire Reading Series, Scape Gallery, 7:00, Corona del Mar, CA

Author Houston lives and writes fearlessly (Sacramento Bee)

Here’s an excerpt from a recent article about Pam that appeared in the Sacramento Bee by Allen Pierleoni.

It’s easy to confuse author Pam Houston with the “other Pam,” the one she created as the “fearless narrator” of her upcoming new novel, “Contents May Have Shifted.” As with most of her fiction, it’s highly autobiographical (“Everything begins with autobiography,” she has observed). Also, both Pams live in nearly perpetual motion, driven by the need to move through the world and be open to the changes it can bring.

Over the years, Houston has logged countless air miles getting to and from five continents – much like the other Pam. She recently returned from Mongolia and the Gobi Desert – a 50th birthday trip to herself – where “I got bitten by a dog and my hand turned black.” Her cellphone message says, “I must be traveling in a place where there are no cells, so please leave a message.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/19/4131646/author-houston-lives-and-writes.html#storylink=cpy

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Pam’s Next Book: Contents May Have Shifted

What’s new? Pam has a book coming in early 2012 from W.W. Norton called Contents May Have Shifted.

According to LitSeen, Pam’s new novel ”consists of 144 very short chapters, of which 132 are named with a place, and the other 12 take place “no place, in the sky, on an airplane.” You can view a video of Pam reading at The Rumpus, and read several excerpts from the book.

Here are a few more recent articles about Pam.

First Friday Author Feature: Pam Houston (paper-pencil-pen)

Superstition Review interview with Pam