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ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL |
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Photo Credit: John Gary Brown
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| Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories,
Cowboys Are My Weakness, which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and
Waltzing the Cat, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her stories have been selected for
Best American Short Stories of the Century, The O. Henry
Awards, and The Pushcart Prize. A collection of autobiographical essays,
A Little More About Me, was published in the fall of 1999. In 2001 she completed a stage play called
Tracking the Pleiades. Houston has edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry called
Women on Hunting, and she is at work on a novel called
Sighthound. Houston is a licensed river guide and a horsewoman. She is an Associate Professor in the writing program at U.C. Davis, and she appears on CBS Sunday Morning from time to time doing literary essays on the wilderness. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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