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Ashley Shelby

Ashley Shelby
Ashley Shelby is a novelist, short story writer, and former environmental journalist. 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. She is also author of the nonfiction book Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City. She lives in the Twin Cities.


Dangerous Solastalgia: On Writing in the Midst of Climate Grief

Ashley Shelby Considers the Languages We Create for Our Most Profound Losses
July 29, 2024  By Ashley Shelby
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Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

Ashley Shelby: The Apocalypse is Now
August 9, 2017  By Ashley Shelby
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