South Pole Station (Shelby) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1977
• Where—Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• Education—M.F.A., Columbia University
• Awards—Third Coast Fiction Prize; William Faulkner Award-Short Fiction
• Currently—lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota


Ashley Shelby is a former editor at Penguin Books, prize-winning writer/journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Shelby received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City (2003), a narrative nonfiction account of the record-breaking flood that, in 1997, devastated Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The short story that became the basis for her debut novel, South Pole Station (2017) is a winner of the Third Coast Fiction Prize.

Her work has been published widely, including in the Seattle Review, Post Road, Sonora Review, Portland Review, J Journal: New Writings on Social Justice, Sierra, Full Circle Journal, Babble, Gastronomica, Carve, and Southeast Review.

She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her family. (From the publisher.)