Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth is a poet/playwright of the rural American West. He lives in the Columbia Basin of Washington state. Red’s Woe to the Land Shadowing won the 2016 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Poetry Book. He is the recipient of three Western Writers of America Spur Awards for Poetry and True West magazine named him “Best Living Western Poet” in 2007. Red’s latest collection of poetry is Straight Ahead (Blue Horse Press, 2017) and his next book of poetry will be issued in October, 2018. Red has published poetry, fiction, short plays, letters, journalism, screeds, and ephemera in ArtForum, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Review, Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, The Ring, Roundup, San Pedro River Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, _and other journals.nnRed’s plays have been presented widely, including at Saddleback College, Sundance Playwrights Lab, SUNY-Fredonia, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. After receiving a Tanne Foundation Award, Red proceeded with a dream project for theatre: _Americana West: A Century of Short Plays and Monologues, 1900-1999, one of the most substantive and significant dramatic projects conceived anywhere. Over the next year or so, he will complete works set in seventeen Western states, each one in a different year and locale. Each of the hundred plays is being brought out as a limited edition chapbook for theatre professionals.

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This bio/description was originally published in 2017 and updated in 2018. For more current information, please refer to the award recipient's website (if provided).