Ashley Shelby is a novelist, short story writer, and former environmental journalist. Set in the post climate impact era, Ashley Shelby’s collection of climate fictions titled Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange. Join us Thursday, January 30 at 6:30 p.m., in person in the Library lower level or virtual on the library Facebook and YouTube . Her debut novel, South Pole Station, was a New York Times Editor’s Pick, a Shelf Awareness Book of the Year, and winner of the Lascaux Prize in Fiction. Her eco-horror novelette “Muri” was nominated for a Hugo and the Shirley Jackson Award. Ashley‘s original reporting on the Exxon Valdez litigation was published in The Nation and republished in news outlets around the world. She is also the author of Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City, a work of narrative journalism about the Grand Forks floods of 1997.]
This event is part of the Sustainability Speaker Series, in partnership with UW-River Falls Sustainability Department and Hope for Earth of River Falls.