Pam Houston, writer

author Pam Houston; photo credit: Adam Karsten

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; the novels, Sight Hound and Contents May Have Shifted; and a collection of essays called A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton.

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.

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6 thoughts on “Pam Houston, writer

  1. Hi Pam,

    I love your advice on writers block. I also like Stephen King’s method of over coming writers block in which he says “There’s always a bomb in the closet”… meaning, as a writer one has the ability to let his or her imagination run wild in the moment in any direction they choose in order to move forward in the writing process. For me I call it “Taking it out a whole new door”.

    Kevin B. Young

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