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April 2, 2012 — The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will feature Pam Houston at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and “Waltzing the Cat,” which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. She has also written two novels, “Contents May Have Shifted” and “Sight Hound,” and two collections of autobiographical essays, “A Rough Guide to the Heart” and “A Little More About Me.”

A member of the faculty at the University of California at Davis, Houston has also edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry titled “Women on Hunting: Essays, Fiction, and Poetry.”

For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Associate Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.