Phyllis Barber
PHYLLIS BARBER {[email protected]} is a cyclist, hiker, editor, teacher, and award-winning author of eight books—a novel, two books of short stories, two children’s books, and a trilogy of memoirs which includes: How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir (a coming-of-age story that won the Associated Writing Program Award for Creative Nonfiction in 1991 and the Association of Mormon Letters Award in Biography in 1993); Raw Edges, a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story; and To The Mountain: One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit, a collection of personal essays about her twentyyear hiatus from Mormonism and experiences with a wide variety of religious persuasions. She has been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, is the mother of four sons, and taught for the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program for nineteen years.