Anne Shelby

Anne (Gabbard) Shelby was born in Berea, Kentucky, in 1948, and lives in rural Southeastern Kentucky, in a farmhouse that has been in her family for generations. She has published essays, newspaper columns, plays, songs, and children's books, among them an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, an American Folklore Society Aesop Accolade winner, a School Library Journal Best Book, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her collection of poems, Appalachian Studies, was a Kentucky Literary Award and Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year nominee.