Blossom as the Cliffrose Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild

KARIN ANDERSON is a professor of English at Utah Valley University where she focuses on creative writing, lit theory, wilderness and environmental writing, LGBTQ lit, contemporary narrative genres, and honor legacies. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and holds degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. The author of the novel Before Us Like a Land of Dreams, she hails from the Great Basin of Utah.

DANIELLE BEAZER DUBRASKY directs the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and is an associate professor of creative writing at Southern Utah University. Danielle holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah and an MA in English/creative writing from Stanford. She is lead author of a poetry curriculum published by the Journal of Poetry Therapy and a two-time winner of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums original writing competition in poetry. Her chapbook, Ruin and Light, won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition and her poems were published in Invisible Shores, a limited edition artist book from Red Butte Press. She lives in Cedar City, Utah.