ALEX WEBB

Alex Webb was born in San Francisco in 1952.  He majored in history and literature at Harvard University.  In 1976, Webb joined Magnum Photos. He has published five books: Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds (1986), Under A Grudging Sun (1989), From the Sunshine State (1996), Amazon (1997), and Crossings (2003).  He has also created a technology-mediated artist's book, Dislocations, (1998-99).

Webb has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant.  He won the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award (1988), the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000), and the David Octavius Hill award (2002).  He has exhibited widely  in the United States and Europe in such museums as the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

http://www.magnumphotos.com

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB

Rebecca Norris Webb was born in Rushville, Indiana and moved to Hot Springs, South Dakota when she was 16.  She wrote poetry at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and took photographic workshops from the International Center for Photography.  In 1989, she graduated from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Since 1998, Norris Webb has been photographing in zoos, aquariums, and natural history museums around the world. Her project--The Glass Between Us: Reflections on Urban Creatures--explores the complicated relationship that exists between people and animals in cities.  In 2003, the project received nonprofit status from the Blue Earth Alliance (www.blueearth.org).  Norris Webb teaches photography workshops in the U.S., Italy, Mexico, Cuba, and Spain with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb.  She is the editor of Crossings (Monacelli Press, 2003).

http://www.blueearth.org/bea/glass.htm

FACULTY - Writing

PAM HOUSTON

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness (W. W. Norton), which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat (W. W. Norton ) which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction.   Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories , the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. A collection of essays, A Little More About Me, was published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 1999. In 2001 she completed a stage play called Tracking the Pleiades which was produced by the Creede Repertory Theater .

Houston has edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for Ecco Press called Women on Hunting, and written the text for a book of photographs called Men Before Ten A.M. (Beyond Words, 1996).

Her first novel, Sighthound, will be published by W.W. Norton in January, 2005 . Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis and she teaches at many summer writers'conferences and festivals in the US and abroad.   She has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning from time to time doing literary essays on the wilderness, as well as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

http://www.pamhouston.net