Basketball Author
Shann Ray Ferch
Shann Ferch played professional basketball in Germany. He played for Montana State in the late 1980's. Shann and his brother Kral won multiple state championships and their team at MSU was inducted into the Montana State Hall of Fame in 2020. Shann also played for Pepperdine during the tragic season when Hank Gathers for Loyola Marymount died on the floor in the semi-finals. Shann (Ray) Ferch's work has appeared in Esquire, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Narrative, Montana Quarterly, and Salon.
About Shann
Shann Ray grew up fishing the waterways of Montana and Alaska, and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in southeast Montana. He attended NBC, coached at NBC, and played professional basketball in Germany's top league, the Bundesliga, where he was the 7th leading scorer and 2nd leading 3-point scorer, shooting 52% from the international 3-point line. Honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the High Plains Book Award, and the American Book Award. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, COO of NBC, and three daughters in Spokane, Washington and teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. He is the author of Sweetclover, Blood Fire Vapor Smoke, American Masculine, American Copper, Balefire, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity, Atomic Theory 7, and the libretto The Garment of Praise.
