Author Talk: Shelley Read

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Adult, Senior
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  • Registration will close on July 31, 2025 @ 6:00pm.

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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 internationally bestselling debut novel, Go as a River, is being translated into over thirty languages and has been optioned for film by Mazur Kaplan in partnership with Fifth Season. She was a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and the PRIME program for at-risk students. She holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University and is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal. She is a fifth-generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. 

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