Comeback Wolves
ÌýIf You Go
Date:ÌýNovember 21, 2005
Time:Ìý6:30ÌýPM
Where:ÌýOld Main
An Evening with Pam Houston, Laura Pritchett, and Gary Wockner
A new anthology about reintroducing wolves in Colorado and the Southwest was discussed by a panel of three writers, including Pam Houston, on Monday, Nov. 21, at a University of Colorado at Boulder event.
The speakers discussed the bookÌýComeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf HomeÌýat 7:00 p.m. in Old Main Chapel. A book signing at 6:30 p.m. preceded the talk. CU-Boulder’s Center of the American West and the CU-Boulder Creative Writing Program cosponsored the event.
Houston, coeditor Gary Wockner, and Laura Pritchett, who has an essay in the book, made up the panel. The book is a collection of 50 poems and essays by different writers offering their views on wolf reintroduction in Colorado and the Southwest.
Houston is widely recognized for her essays on wilderness and has appeared onÌýCBS Sunday MorningÌýandÌýThe Oprah Winfrey Show. She is the author of two collections of short stories,ÌýCowboys Are My WeaknessÌýandÌýWaltzing the Cat. Her first novel,ÌýSighthound, was published in January.
Wockner coeditedÌýComeback WolvesÌýwith Gregory McNamee and SueEllen Campbell. His work has appeared in the magazineÌýOrion,ÌýThe Denver Post,ÌýHigh Country News, and other publications. He also is a research associate at Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Lab.
Pritchett is an author and freelance writer whose work mostly focuses on land-use issues and ranch preservation in the West. Her writing has appeared in the magazinesÌýThe Sun,ÌýOrion, andÌý5280, among other places. She is the author ofÌýHell’s Bottom, Colorado, a collection of short stories, and a new novel,ÌýSky Bridge.