found: Go as a river, 2023:CIP title page (Shelley Read) galley (About the author: Shelley Read is a fifth-generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope and is most at home on a mountaintop. She was a senior lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and Honors, and was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. Shelley holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal, and is a board member for the Vita Institute for the Arts)
