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. “Houston firmly establishes herself as a key voice from the rural West… her talent remains remarkable and her words extraordinarily affecting and effective.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. “Houston’s vision finds a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious.”– Publishers Weekly Starred Review “Highly recommended as a memoir that combines nature, writing, and personal reflection.”- Library Journal, Starred Review “A profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth-and to the rest of it, as well.” – Kirkus, Starred Review “If Cowboys Are My Weakness was Pam Houston’s call to millions of women-blasting us with self-recognition of how we give away our own power-then her new book is the response to that call.” Sara Cutaia for the Chicago Review of Books In a time where the world is either drowning, or burning, or being drilled-into, Houston’s outlook promises a better tomorrow – even if that means we’re no longer here.” And as equally deep is her ability for hope. “Pam Houston is in possession of a deep, heart-achingly beautiful love for her own personal piece of earth. A third kind of book is so insightful and evocative, you shelve it beside other favorite and instructive titles. Other times, you read a good memoir and find yourself wanting to track down the author and become friends. “…good writing can make you envious, no matter how foreign the terrain. PRAISE FOR DEEP CREEK: FINDING HOPE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY

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