Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. She is professor of English at the University of California–Davis and lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

"If [Houston’s] unlucky in love, she's certainly lucky in prose. She makes everyday accidental details of nature fly vividly off the page."

Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. She is professor of English at the University of California–Davis and lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

"If [Houston’s] unlucky in love, she's certainly lucky in prose. She makes everyday accidental details of nature fly vividly off the page."