Heidi Naylor

HEIDI NAYLOR {[email protected]} teaches English at Boise State University. Her short story collection, Revolver, was published by BCC Press in April 2018.

Articles

Caught in the Crosshairs | Maurine Whipple, A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple

The life of Maurine Whipple, lauded Mormon author of the 1941 novel The Giant Joshua, is one of the saddest stories in LDS literature. She loved her people, the tough and hardscrabble settlers of St.…

Newborn

Tell us the dream where you entered the mountain
and left all your gold for the dawn

Commitment Beyond Custom | Michael Fillerup, The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories

I once had a bishop who was as guileless as he was faithful, a good and generous man who worked hard and loved us, his ward members, tirelessly. He liked to tell our ward’s young…

Backwards Pioneers

My earliest memory takes place in 1960s Wilkinsburg, where we lived while Dad finished his schooling at Carnegie Tech. Dark brick house and heavy gray sky. Warm, prickly air; a carpet of clover in the grass. A thick cement porch I loved, anchored with square pillars of the same black brick. Chipped concrete steps with graveled wounds and patches.

Can Faith Survive Choice and Circumstance? | Jack Harrell, Caldera Ridge.

Kail Lambert, the protagonist in Jack Harrell’s new novel Caldera Ridge, stands in the front room of the small, older home he and his wife Charlene have bought in rural southeast Idaho. While Charlene works…

The Home Teacher

Bishop warned Brock Hartman ahead of time. “They’ll ask for a food order.” He opened a desk drawer and took out a binder filled with requisitions for the storehouse. “But they have a decent income…