Anne Shelby is the author

of poems, essays,

children's books

and, most recently,

a collection of Appalachian

folktales.

A storyteller and singer as

well as a writer,

Shelby

performs a one-woman show

based on the life of

folksinger and activist

Aunt Molly Jackson. 

She is also a

member of Public Outcry,

a group of Kentucky

musicians fighting against

mountaintop removal

coal mining.

Background

Anne has taught

creative writing at the

Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts

and the

Appalachian Writers Workshop

at Hindman

Settlement School,

has worked with the

Kentucky Arts Council's

artist-in-the-schools program,

and has been a contributor

to many other workshops

and conferences.

Anne lives near Oneida

in Clay County, Kentucky,

with her husband,

journalist Edmund Shelby. 

They are the parents of

writer Graham Shelby

and grandparents of triplets

Leo, Luke and Ace.