Shelley Armitage, professor, writer, naturalist, conservationist lives in the Chihuahuan desert in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is author of eight award-winning books, most recently Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place, a Kirkus starred book cited as one of the best memoirs of the year, and a finalist for the May Sarton prize, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the Collins P. Carr award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has been featured on NPR and among her other honors are a Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship, a Distinguished Chair in American Literature Fulbright in Warsaw, Fulbright awards in Finland and Portugal, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, three National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, and a Rockefeller grant.
