Shelley Read's internationally bestselling debut novel, GO AS A RIVER, is being translated into over 30 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.

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.