Tamara Pace Thomson

TAMARA PACE THOMSON {[email protected]} is a visiting faculty member at Brigham Young University, where she teaches composition and creative writing. She writes mostly fiction and poetry but has published an occasional creative nonfiction essay and book review. Her favorite teaching gig is a volunteer creative writing workshop that she started at the Utah State Hospital. She and her husband have three children and two children-in-law and like to spend their extra time with them.

Alternate Narratives and Family Bonds | Mary Clyde, Journeys from a Desert Road

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Mormon doctrine plays a scant role in Mary Clyde’s new novel, Journeys from a Desert Road, but Mormon narratives are intrinsic to her characters, their family bonds, and to the journeys of the title. As…

Sonya

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 1

Sonya has been sober almost a year—six months in treatment and six months on her own—and goes to AA meetings at noon or at 7:00 p.m. (sometimes both times) every day. She smokes Camel 100s…

Daryl Prays, The Snake River, and Insomnia

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 3

At fourteen, Daryl cut across an empty lot
behind a brick pharmacy
where he had picked up his mom’s pills
(linden trees in town bloomed in pale sweetness),