Shelley Read’s debut novel, GO AS A RIVER, is an international bestseller that has been translated into 34 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 for Best Debut Fiction, 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.

Books by Shelley Read

Go as a River

by Shelley Read - Fiction

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, GO AS A RIVER is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter.