20 Oct Telluride Library: Pam Houston with “Animals Taught Me Everything,” 1026!
Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library is pleased to announce that on Monday, October 26, 5:30 pm, award-winning author Pam Houston will be in town for talk and signing. Her new book is “Animals Taught Me Everything.”
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What can a wagging tail and soaring wings teach us about a life well lived?
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere.
With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir “Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country,” as well as two novels, “Contents May Have Shifted” and “Sight Hound.” Two collections of short stories include “Cowboys Are My Weakness ” and “Waltzing the Cat.”
Houston’s work also features a collection of essays, “A Little More About Me”; with environmental activist and author Amy Irvine, there is a collection of essay entitled “Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place,” as well as “Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom. ”
Houston’s stories have been selected for a heap of awards including The O. Henry Awards; The Pushcart Prize; Best American Travel Writing,; and Best American Short Stories of the Century, among other anthologies.
Houston is a winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards.
She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts; is Professor of English at UC Davis,; and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers, which puts on between severn to ten gatherings of writers per year from places as diverse as Boulder, Colorado, Tomales Bay, California and Chamonix, France.
Houston’s passions include Icelandic Horses (especially the ones who live in Iceland, where she goes as often as possible), Irish Wolfhounds, travel, mentoring and teaching, particularly writing about the more than the human world.
Pam Houston lives on a homestead at 9,000 feet near the headwaters of the Rio Grande in Colorado with her husband Mike and two dogs, a quarter horse, a miniature donkey, four Icelandic ewes, four hens and a rooster.
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