Career
Also, "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. Major themes in Houston"s work include relationships between men and women, the outdoors, animals and childhood trauma. Houston was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to an actress and a businessman.
She attended Denison University in Ohio, graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor in English.
She held several odd jobs before entering a graduate program at the University of Utah. She is currently the Director of Creative Writing at University College Davis, and teaches in the Pacific University low residency Master of Fine Arts program, and at writer’s conferences around the world.
Houston currently lives on a ranch at 9,000" above sea level in Colorado, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande River. Bachelor of Arts (Denison University, Granville, Ohio) 1983.
Master of Arts, University of Utah, 1992.
Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction and plays), modernism, contemporary fiction, the short story, wilderness literature.
