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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.
"""In Ashley Shelby’s brilliant, daring, and innovative collection Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, the reader is plunged into a world of climate change and feelings of loss that come with it. In Shelby’s imagination, trees walk, birds and polar bears talk, and all of them look to humans to answer the question, ‘Why?’ With stories told in a variety of forms from traditional pieces of short fiction to future restaurant menus to online advertisements, Shelby digs deep into the grief of a changing world and all who are affected by it."" —Alex DiFrancesco, author of All City ""Honeymoons in Temporary Locations is a deeply felt, deeply imagined collection of dispatches from the weirdest extrapolatory fringes of the world we’ve made, the world we’ve allowed to happen. Ashley Shelby has kaleidoscopic vision—from climate disaster tourism brochures to refugee camps for the rich to talking bears, she has created a vivid, terrifying, and unexpected landscape. There is a profound grief that runs through these stories, grief over what is becoming of our natural world as a result of our very unnatural way of living, but also a sense of connection."" —Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise "
