Ashley Shelby

Mill City Writers’ Workshop was founded by author and editor Ashley Shelby in 2008. Shelby is the author of Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City, which was praised by Salon, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, Library Journal, and other media outlets. Her original reporting on the Exxon Valdez litigation has been published in The Nation, E: The Environmental Magazine, and alternet, has been republished in news outlets around the globe, and has been anthologized in the I Hate Corporate America Reader (Thunder’s Mouth Press/Da Capo, 2004). Her journalism, essays, op/eds, and fiction have been widely published and anthologized. She co-founded and curated the KGB Bar Nonfiction Reading Series in New York’s East Village, where she hosted authors such as Sebastian Junger and Adrian Nicole Leblanc. Shelby, who was awarded the William Faulkner Short Fiction Award in 2002 and the 2009 Third Coast Fiction Prize (selected by Stuart Dybek), received an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She is a full member of PEN and Authors Guild, and was a 2009 Bush Foundation Fellowship finalist. She was also named a 2009 Artist Fellow at Blacklock Nature Sanctuary and was recently awarded a 2010 Minnesota State Arts Board grant for her book-in-progress.

I love working with people via e-mail, Microsoft Word Tracking, and other convenient ways to swap pages, both freshly written and line-edited. I am often much more available this way than I am for in-person meetings.