Shann Ray

Shann Ray is the winner of the Subterrain Poetry Prize, the Pacific Northwest Inlander Fiction Award, and the Ruminate Short Story Prize. American Masculine, his collection of stories, won the Bakeless Fiction Prize conducted by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and published by Graywolf Press. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly, Poetry International, South Dakota Review, McSweeney's, Narrative, and StoryQuarterly among other venues. He holds an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University, a Ph.D. in systems psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada, and a dual MFA in poetry and fiction from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. He grew up in Montana and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeast Montana. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.