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Author Talk: Shelley Read

Event Type:

Adults, Author, Local Author, Seniors

Age Group:

Adult, Senior
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Event Details

Join Pikes Peak Library District as we welcome award-winning author Shelley Read to celebrate the paperback release of her internationally selling debut novel Go as a River. Following the address, Read will do an audience Q&A session and will be available for book signing. Copies of Go as a River will be available to purchase from Poor Richard's Bookstore during the event. Registration is suggested, but not required. 

About Shelley Read:

Shelley Read’s debut novel, Go as a River, is an international bestseller that has sold over a million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-four languages, and is in development for film with the Mazur Kaplan Company. Winner of the High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the Reading the West Book Award for Debut Fiction, Go as a River is also a Sunday Times bestseller, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist, an Amazon Editors’ Pick Best Debut, an Indie Next Pick, and a Colorado Public Radio Books We Love selection, among other national and international accolades.

Shelley was an award-winning senior lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and honors. She is a mom, mountaineer, world traveler, and fifth-generation Coloradan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of Colorado’s Western Slope. Learn more at www.shelleyread.com.