Shann Ray's Book Reception and Signing
Name:
Shann Ray's Book Reception and Signing
Date:
January 18, 2016
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Event Description:
BookPeople welcomes author Shann Ray of Spokane, Wash. at 7 p.m., Monday, January 18. Ray will read from his debut novel “American Copper,” with introduction by Kim Barnes of Moscow, Idaho. Books will be available for sale and signing. Ray’s wife, a professional musician, and his daughter will perform three songs from the book’s time period. Light refreshments will be provided.
A former professional basketball player, Shann Ray’s collection of stories “American Masculine” won the American Book Award, the Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and two High Plains Book Awards for Best Story Collection and Best First Book. His book of poems, “Balefire,” won the High Plains Book Award for Poetry. His work has been featured in Poetry, Esquire, McSweeney’s, Narrative, and LitHub, Ray is the winner of the subTerrain Poetry Prize, the Crab Creek Review Fiction Award, the Poetry Quarterly Poetry Prize, the Pacific Northwest Inlander Short Story Award, and the Ruminate Short Story Prize, He holds a dual MFA in poetry and fiction from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University, a Masters in clinical psychology from Pepperdine, and a PhD in systems psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada. He has served as a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a research psychologist for the Centers for Disease Control, and as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. He was born and raised in Montana
A former professional basketball player, Shann Ray’s collection of stories “American Masculine” won the American Book Award, the Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and two High Plains Book Awards for Best Story Collection and Best First Book. His book of poems, “Balefire,” won the High Plains Book Award for Poetry. His work has been featured in Poetry, Esquire, McSweeney’s, Narrative, and LitHub, Ray is the winner of the subTerrain Poetry Prize, the Crab Creek Review Fiction Award, the Poetry Quarterly Poetry Prize, the Pacific Northwest Inlander Short Story Award, and the Ruminate Short Story Prize, He holds a dual MFA in poetry and fiction from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University, a Masters in clinical psychology from Pepperdine, and a PhD in systems psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada. He has served as a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a research psychologist for the Centers for Disease Control, and as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. He was born and raised in Montana
