The Staked Plains

Shelley Armitage

December 18, 2022

Shelley Armitage, professor, writer, naturalist, lives in the Chihuahuan desert in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is author of eight award-winning books, most recently Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place, a Kirkus-starred book cited as one of the best memoirs of the year, and a finalist for the May Sarton prize, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the Collins P. Carr award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Armitage is Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at El Paso where she held the Roderick Professorship and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. She manages the family grasslands near Vega, Texas—inspiration for how we experience kinship with the places we inhabit.