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Interview transcript and audio file | Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton| Other titles by Shelton

Richard Shelton
About Richard Shelton

A resident of Southern Arizona since 1956, Richard Shelton is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, and has been featured in hundreds of magazines and journals. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review and has been translated into several languages.

Shelton is a Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona, where he helped establish the Poetry Center. He also continues to teach writing workshops, which he started in 1974, within the Arizona State Prison Complex. Books resulting from these workshops, along with the magazine Walking Rain Review, have been published, and Shelton’s own memoir of his experiences teaching inmates will be released this year. Shelton currently resides near Tucson with his wife, Lois.

Find out more:
Pima County Public Library Library News
OneBookAZ 2007
10th Annual Arizona Book Festival Featured Authors
National Public Radio Excerpt: “Going Back to Bisbee”