Pam Houston

Pam Houston (born January 9, 1962, in Trenton, New Jersey) Cowboys Are My Weakness was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992.

Houston's stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. and multiple teaching awards.

Major themes in Houston's work include relationships between men and women, the outdoors, animals and childhood trauma.

Personal life

Houston was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her parents were an actress and a businessman. and at the Institute of 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.

Books "Cowboys Are My Weakness". Hardcover: 320 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 6, 2012), , Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Hardcover: 288 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, (January 29, 2019)

Education and interests B.A. (Denison University, Granville, Ohio) 1983;