Pam Houston, fiction
Award-winning Writer & Teacher
Author of Cowboys Are My Weakness

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness (1994), which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat (1999), which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction; two novels, Contents May Have Shifted (forthcoming, 2012); and Sight Hound (2006), all published by W.W. Norton & Co.; and two collections of autobiographical essays, A Rough guide to the Heart (Virago, 2001) and A Little More About Me (Norton, 1999). Houston has also edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry entitled Women on Hunting: Essays, Fiction, and Poetry (Ecco Press). She is the author of a stage play called "Tracking the Pleiades" and she has written the text for Men Before Ten A.M., a book of photographs by the French photographer Veronique Vialle.