LTCC Writer's Series: Pam Houston

Pam Houston will be the featured writer at Lake Tahoe Community College's Writers Series on Thursday, May 8 in the college's library at 8 p.m.

Houston’s most recent novel, Contents May Have Shifted, was published in 2012. The book has been called “an absorbing, generous, ravishing book by a high priestess of you-have-to-read-this prose” by author Cheryl Strayed, who penned the New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Houston is also the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Book cover for "Contents May Have Shifted" Waltzing the Cat, the novel Sight Hound, and a collection of essays entitled "A Little More About Me," all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The 2013 Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century.

She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and multiple teaching awards. She is a Professor of English at University of California, Davis, directs the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers, and teaches in The Pacific University MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world. She lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.