Pam Houston is the award-wining author of books including Cowboys Are My Weakness (1993), Waltzing the Cat (1999), A Little More About Me (2000), and Sight Hound (2006) and Contents May Have Shifted (2012). Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories Collections, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. Houston teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of California-Davis.