Ryan Shoemaker’s debut story collection, Beyond the Lights, is available through No Record Press. T.C. Boyle called it a collection that “moves effortlessly from brilliant comedic pieces to stories of deep emotional resonance.” Ryan’s forthcoming […]
[…] She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from Boston University. She has served on the boards of the Chicago Metro History Education Center, Exponent II, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and […]
[…] a fellow at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center, and is the author of IF We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, […]
[…] Academic Affairs and Provost at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. He received his BA and MA in English from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He […]
The debate over the Mountain Meadows Massacre could be said to have two narrative as well as physical poles, one positioned in Arkansas and the other located in Utah. The Arkansan pole is […]
We wake to cold, though it’s mid-spring, so silent at sunrise we both raise the pleated blinds and look out: everything a shock of ice . . . each draped petal and twig from […]
For more than a week, I thought cutting off my toe was penance. I delved a hole for this toe, a quick, tiny sepulcher at the crook
[…] his own body and blessed it, gave it to twelve men he loved and they were filled. The breaking and the eating: what a poor man does with his own sorrows to understand his Lord.
Like a wine taster swirling a thin glass stem, I want to hold the name of God on my tongue, color my mouth wine-bibber red, let the heat run down deep past heart and […]
Writing on the subway feels like etching an intaglio on horseback. The train writhes and bucks beneath me, making