Local Authors
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Tricia Levenseller
Initially from a small town in Oregon, Tricia now lives next to the Rocky Mountains with her bossy dog, Rosy. She received her degree in English Language and editing, and she is thrilled that she never has to read a textbook again.
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Joel Long
Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes is availible from Elik Press.
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Carol Lynch Williams
Carol Lynch Williams, who grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah, is an award-winning novelist with seven children of her own, including six daughters. She has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College, and won the prestigious PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Wri
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Christian McKay Heidicker
I'm a fairly predictable writer, I'm afraid. I read. I write. I drink tea. On the day of the blood sun, I wake before dawn to sacrifice demon effigies to the Order of the Purple Fox. I play racquetball sometimes.
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Brandon Mull
Brandon Mull is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journalbestselling Beyonders and Fablehaven series. Brandon resides in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon in Utah.
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Jennifer Nielsen
New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Nielsen, was born and raised in Northern Utah, where she still lives today with her husband, three children, and a dog that won't play fetch.
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Julie Olson
I was born in Maryland, the 6th of 9 (that's right, 9) kids. I had 6 brothers who loved to tease and 2 sisters who paved the way with good old mom and dad for me (the youngest girl). But, I vowed to be different than the bunch.
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Jacqueline Osherow
The author of six books of poetry, Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of prizes from the
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Mark Pett
Cartooning has long been a part of Mark Pett's peripatetic life.
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Kathryn Purdie
My love of storytelling began as a young girl when my dad told me, in his own words, the story of To Kill a Mockingbird while we listened to the film score together.
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Jean Reagan
Jean Reagan lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, Peter, and daughter, Jane. Their beloved son and brother, John, died in 2005. Born in Alabama, Jean spent most of her childhood in Japan.
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Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal is a Utah Poet Laureate Emeritus and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming Council of the Arts Fellowship, and
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Jana Richman
Jana's new novel, The Last Cowgirl, is set in the harsh and beautiful landscape of the West desert of Utah. Recently returned to Salt Lake from Tucson Jana has also written a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints out in paperback.
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Celesta Rimington
Celesta Rimington is a musical theater performer, an advocate for wildlife and the arts, and an active participant in Utah's writing community.
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Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was born in Rodarte, New Mexico.
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Brandon Sanderson
BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
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