Stephanie Kilpatrick

STEPHANIE KILPATRICK {[email protected]} has a BA in English from Brigham Young University. She is a member of three writing orga￾nizations—Latter-day Saints in Publishing, Media and the Arts (LDSPMA), Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and American Night Writers Association (ANWA)—and serves as chapter president for the latter two. She has three fiction short stories published, “Sister’s Keeper” in 2023, “Together and Trafalgar” in 2024, and “Earthcraft” in 2025. She has also won two awards from the annual Writer’s Digest competition for personal essays.

Sneaking to Church in Saudi

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Orange dust blows into my eyes as I step out of the car onto the hot-enough-to-cook-an-egg sidewalk in the Diplomatic Quarter, or DQ as everyone calls it, of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We are a few…

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