Shelley Blanton-Stroud
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Shelley Blanton-Stroud

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Shelley Blanton-Stroud grew up in Bakersfied, California, the daughter of Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the field. Recently retired from three decades teaching writing in the California State University system, first in San Francisco and then in Sacramento, she continues to consult with writers in the U.S. energy industry. She has served as President of the Board of 916 Ink, an arts-based creative writing nonprofit for children, and currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at her alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, supporting programs for students and faculty in history, philosophy, literature and the arts. She previously co-directed Stories on Stage Sacramento, where actors performed the stories of established and emerging authors. Her historical mystery series—Copy Boy, Tomboy, and Poster Girl—follows Jane Benjamin, a cross-dressing, tomato-picking, San Francisco gossip columnist who investigates crime stories that never make the front page. Her fourth novel, An Unlikely Prospect (She Writes Press, August 2025), is based on the little-known 1945 V-J Day San Francisco Peace Riot, featuring a widow publisher who fights both to report a number of unacknowledged rapes and simultaneously find her voice in a male-dominated field, a theme that runs through Shelley’s work, ever since the day she enrolled in the first class of women to enter Claremont Men’s College as freshmen.
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