Author of the best-selling GO AS A RIVER, Shelley Read is a fifth generation Coloradoan who lives with her family at 9,000 feet elevation in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. Her debut novel, Go as a River, is inspired by her ancestors and the wild landscape where she wanders and wonders.   

An award-winning Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, Shelley taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and Honors, and was a founder of the interdisciplinary Environment & Sustainability major, the Prague study abroad program, and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. She holds a double major honors BA in English and journalism from the University of Denver, and an MA from Temple University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing & the Temple Rome Seminar in Aesthetics. Shelley was also a Dean’s Fellow in the PhD Program in English at the University of Denver where she studied 19th and 20th-century world literature and philosophy.

She is currently a board member and writing instructor for Vita Institute for the Arts and is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal.

Shelley is a mom, mountaineer, world traveler, and friend to small creatures and old dogs. She loves few things more than the first steps of a new adventure and a hot cuppa tea after a grand day out.

Please join us in Salida on February 22 for an evening with Shelley:  https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/691fbb0d-2637-4307-90ce-878c0d693a18

If you already have a copy of her book, she will be doing a signing after her talk. If you would like to purchase a book in advance, stop by Salida Books to support local business and purchase a copy. There will also be books for sale at the event. We can't wait to see you at this fundraising event.

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