Official site for Shann Ray, winner of the American Book Award. Works include Atomic Theory 7, American Copper, Balefire, and Forgiveness and Power.

Czech American artist and American Book Award winner Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford.

Balefire is Shann Ray’s debut book of poems, and contains a range of lyric and narrative poetry that challenges the complexities of gender, race, and loss. He returns to the rugged …

Shann Ray’s AMERICAN COPPER is that rare book that does both. With an emotional heart as enormous as the Montana mountains, it traces nearly a century of American life through its …

“Gonzaga University professor Shann Ray’s latest book of poetry explores questions of suffering, love and healing. “What does ultimate forgiveness have to say to ultimate violence?” he asks …

American Copper, by Shann Ray: From the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the mining and industry of the 1930s, Shann Ray’s novel is epic yet intimate, brutal yet poetic. Montana’s …

American Masculine by Shann Ray, published by Graywolf Press, is the winner of the Bakeless Prize for fiction and a debut collection of short stories.

Renowned landscape photographer Craig W. Hergert and award-winning American poet and novelist Shann Ray have released their anticipated collaboration, Montana Panoramic: …

The Souls of Others is a powerful essay collection by American Book Award winner Shann Ray. Ray depicts the American west as both magnificent and destitute. The mountains are alive. …

In this book, Shann Ray Ferch uncovers the beauty and grit of vulnerable leadership, forgiving leadership, servant leadership. The power of leading with forgiveness offers high hope for our …