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Resounds: Russell Rowland, Shann Ray

russellrowland.com, shannray.com

Russell Rowland and Shann Ray are two of Montana’s most prolific contemporary writers. On this episode of Resounds, they talk with Corby Skinner and Anna Paige about the character of place.

Russell Rowland has published three novels: In Open Spaces, The Watershed Years and High and Inside. He co-edited an anthology of western writers titled West of 98: Living and Writing in the New American West. His current non-fiction travelogue, 56 Counties: A Montana Journey was published in 2016.
 
 
Shann Ray has won three High Plains Books Awards, in Poetry for Balefire, and in both the First Book and Short Story categories for American Masculine. His first historic novel, American Copper, was published in 2015.  He has published two books on social science as Shann Ray Ferch.

Anna Paige is a Montana-based journalist, poet and educator. She is originally from Wyoming and has lived in Billings for more than a decade, where she co-founded Young Poets, winner of the 2021 Library of Congress Award for Literacy.
Corby Skinner is an independent marketing professional with an enormous capacity for assessing issues and creating positive, effective messages.