Ann Cannon

Ann Edwards Cannon {[email protected]} works as a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune and a bookseller for King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. She has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of periodicals, as well as books for young readers (www.aecannon.com). She and her husband, Ken Cannon, live in Salt Lake. They are the parents of five adult sons.

The Quilt

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 1

The quilt had been magnificent once. Passed down through the years like a sacrament between mother and daughter, it had been made by Sarah’s great grandmother and her friends—all of them from Manchester. On long…

Standards Night

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 4

Last spring the daughter of my best friend from graduate school asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk could not be the standard Standards Night talk. She wanted all those young women to walk away from the evening feeling—you know—upbeat.