- Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
- By Pam Houston, professor of English
鈥泪苍 鈥楧eep Creek,鈥 her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important.鈥 鈥 Samantha Dunn, author of 鈥淣ot by Accident鈥
Sorry we missed this book last year, but, as we add it now, we鈥檙e happy to report it came out in paperback last month. Houston teaches in the English department鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.
鈥淭hrough her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all,鈥 says the publisher鈥檚 description, referring to Houston鈥檚 120-acre homestead in the Colorado Rockies. 鈥In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston鈥檚 most profound meditations yet on how 鈥榯o live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief 鈥 to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.鈥欌
Wrote Sara Cutaia in the Chicago Review of Books: 鈥淧am Houston is in possession of a deep, heart-achingly beautiful love for her own personal piece of earth. And as equally deep is her ability for hope.鈥
Houston鈥檚 other books include the novels Contents May Have Shifted (2012) and Sight Hound (2005), essays in A Little More About Me (1999), and two collections of linked short stories: Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992), winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and translated into nine languages; and Waltzing the Cat (1998), winner of the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction.
She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts