Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild - Paperback

by Karin Anderson (Editor), Danielle Beazer Dubrasky (Editor)

"Danielle Beazer Dubrasky and Karin Anderson are expert guides to this territory. Let them and this book bring you home."
--JOANNA BROOKS

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges readers to examine the myriad ways deeply rooted heritage shapes personal relationship with landscape.

Author Biography

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.