Join Holly Welker and contributors for a reading from their new book Revising Eternity: 27 Latter-day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships.
Contributors who will read at the event include:
Stephen Carter has a PhD in narrative studies from the University of Alaska–Fairbanks and is the editor of Sunstone, an independent Mormon magazine. He is the editor of Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death, and the author of Mormonism for Beginners, What of the Night?, and iPlates (with Jett Atwood), an award-winning series of graphic novels based on the Book of Mormon. But Stephen’s most recent (and challenging) jobs include managing his youngest daughter’s dance schedule and learning to do her hair and makeup.
Joey Franklin is the author of the essay collections Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (Nebraska 2020) and My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married (Nebraska 2015). His essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Hunger Mountain, Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and Fourth Genre, and he’s had work anthologized in The Norton Reader, Bedford Select Custom Database, and several other collections. He currently coordinates the MFA program in creative writing at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, and serves as co-editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.
Boyd Jay Petersen is the program coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University. He was editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 2016 to 2019. He holds an MA from the University of Maryland and PhD from the University of Utah, both in comparative literature.
Caleb Scoville trains legal professionals to use case management software. He’s an aspiring entrepreneur currently building an app to help young adults meet like-minded people. He lives in Provo, Utah, with his wife and six kids. (Two are his and four belong to his wife.) He enjoys traveling and being with his family.
Nicholas Don Smith is eagerly awaiting the fall of the oppressive capitalist system. He survived the coronavirus pandemic in American Fork, Utah, and is a comedian, writer, children’s book illustrator, and bulldog enthusiast.
