About me
Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and appears on bestseller lists worldwide. Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the 2023 Reading the West Award for Best Debut, Go As A River is also a Sunday Times and ABA bestseller, Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, Amazon Editor's Pick Best Debut, Indie Next Pick, and Colorado Public Radio Books We Love selection, among other national and international accolades. The novel is currently in development for film with Mazur Kaplan Productions. Shelley was an award-winning Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and honors. A long-time Crested Butte local and regular contributor it Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal, Shelley is also a mom, mountaineer, world traveler, and proud fifth generation Coloradan.