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James Shelley

Goodreads Author

Born

Cleveland, Ohio

Website

https://jamesshelleyauthor.com/

Genre

Fiction

Member Since

February 2022

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James Shelley has spent his professional life shifting between the underworld and higher places. He's been a psychiatric attendant, land surveyor, arts critic, mental health case worker, archivist for the Rockefellers, and a bagpiper playing at the funerals of men and women he's never met. As an educator, his innovative work at an Ohio college supporting at-risk male students has attracted national media attention, including The Atlantic and NPR.

As a writer, Shelley started out writing plays for experimental theatre before shifting to fiction, early efforts earning him an Ohio Arts Prize. In his poetry and fiction, he has always been fascinated with how prosaic moments can unexpectedly transcend, expanding into spaces that were not there b ...more