It is a book of deeply felt and conveyed experiences in vignettes that illuminate relationships the author generously shares with readers. This memoir has so much going for it – the drama of storytelling, the power of love (of humans and animals), the strength to survive in harsh, isolated below-zero winters, the goodwill of neighbors and distant friends and the stark radiance of surrounding mountains and streams. On the contrary, it will fill you with the author’s indomitable joy of life as she comes to grips with hardship and death. she will be at Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia St., Santa Fe. she will be at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW, and at 7 p.m. Pam Houston discusses, signs “Deep Creek” at two bookstores on Saturday, Feb. 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.Please put this book on your must-read list for 2019 – Pam Houston’s “Deep Creek – Finding Hope in the High Country.” You won’t be disappointed.

She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. 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, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Gigner holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been working with horses and their people for over 25 years, and works with experienced riders as well as anyone who wishes to get close to the power and honesty of the horses. Ginger Gaffney is an author, a horse trainer, and teacher of riding and writing. to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.' In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how 'to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. A top-ranked horse trainer's gorgeous, life-affirming memoir, Half Broke, offers profound insight into the fascinating ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive.

Deep creek memoir