Lisa Bolin Hawkins

LISA BOLIN HAWKINS has published articles, poetry, and short stories in Dialogue, Public Square Magazine, BYU Studies, the Ensign, Exponent II, and elsewhere. She also has published a novel, Mrs Holmes. Lisa formerly worked as a lawyer and professor, still works as a writer and editor, and is happy to put together the weekly ward newsletter and consult on temple and family history work. She is married to Alan and has two children, a child-in-law, and two grandsons.

Articles

The Great Zucchini War

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All My Silent Midnight Hours

Things just get worse.
Which heavenly linoleum stripe
Leads to universal Emergency?
The resident angel could scour my soul.

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Sacred Histories

Come, my child, hark to the tale 
The poets weave for our world: 
Hear the prophets sing the song 
Of earth rolling on her wings— 

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Snowy Night

Whose poem this is, I think I know— 
New England bard of spring and snow, 
But eighth-grade teachers don’t explain 
The depths to which the poets go. 

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Podcasts

Dialogue Out Loud Presents The Great Zucchini War

Enjoy this story The Great Zucchini War in marvelous audio form. Read more