The Utah Monthly

Writer and Editor for The Utah Monthly. Lover of culture, high and low.

Public policy grad student at the University of Virginia and aspiring US diplomat & Appalachian Trail thru-hiker

San Diegan. Lover of Tolstoy and sourdough bread. "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." - Joan Didion

Urban planner and former Utahan with a lifelong fascination with, and love for, both the Beehive State and chocolate-covered cinnamon bears.

BA in American Studies & French Studies. Aspiring author & scholar interested in twentieth-century American history.

"Life is of small account if it is not instinct with a formidable eagerness to extend its frontiers" -- "I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, for I have never been acquainted with either"

Language enthusiast who loves identifying birds and exploring the mountains.

BYU undergrad, avid bicyclist, serious knitter. I write about memory, materiality, and queer identity, among other things.

BYU and UCLA alumn, native Las Vegan, avid sports, history, and film fan.

Virginian, fifth child, byu wildlife and wildlands undergrad. Obsessed atm with King James, birds and raspberry ribbon cookies.

Happiest at BYU and in the Idaho wilderness. Enthusiast of country music and armchair theology.

A mother of three, a former school teacher, and a current juggler of passions including eco-feminism, spirituality, social justice, global perspectives, and reading.

Fly fisher, bird watcher, and occasional pie baker. Personally introduced graduate students at two universities to jello salad.

I am a student at Harvard Divinity School and a recent BYU graduate in Classics and History from Anaheim, CA, with interests in history, politics, theology, and interfaith work.

I'm a writer and graduate student studying creative writing at Utah State University. My primary goal as a writer is to uncover connections between others' and my own experiences, allowing those connections to reveal real-world truths.

Our social problems are spiritual more than economic. A better future depends on looking back as well as forward.

Alice Faulkner Burch was born to Cleo & Elwanda Faulkner in Oxnard, CA. She volunteers with Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation, Utah’s Black History organization.

Attorney, advocate, dog & cat mom of the year. She/her. Believing in yourself starts with believing yourself - y creer es crear.

I am a native Utahn, and am an avid explorer of the west desert. Currently I am a graduate student at BYU in Provo, where I study ecology of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine forests. My wife and I live with our two boys in Payson.