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CONTRIBUTORS MARIE BRIAN lives in Woodland Hills, Utah, with her husband, Danny Brian, and their three children. She is currently preparing her young adult novel, "The Roots of Mistwick," for publication. DAWN BAKER BRIMLEY graduated from Brigham Young University and has done graduate work there, as well as teaching children's literature. She has pub- lished poetry in several journals, has won numerous awards for her poetry, and is working on a collection of Christmas poems. She has also published a collection of poetry, Waking Moments. SAMUEL BROWN is an academic physician whose research interests focus on life-threatening infections. He lives with his wife, Kate Holbrook, and two daugh- ters in Salt Lake City. This essay is part of an in-progress, book-length treatment of death and the kindred dead in early Mormonism. TYLER CHADWICK lives in Ogden, Utah, with his wife, Jessica, and their two daughters, Sidney and Alex. He plans to graduate from Weber State University at the end of 2006 with a B.S. in English. JUDY CURTIS, a graduate of Brigham Young University and Boston University, recently completed a creative writing program at Phoenix College. Her poems have appeared in Dialogue, Irreantum, and Exponent II. She lives in Phoenix where she writes, gardens, plans trips to see grandchildren, writes a gardening column for the Master Gardener Journal and volunteers at the Desert Botanical Garden. BOYD F. EDWARDS is Russell and Ruth Bolton Professor of Physics at West Virginia University. He obtained a Ph.D. (1985) in applied physics from Stanford University. W. FARRELL EDWARDS is Professor of Physics at Utah State University. He ob- tained a Ph.D. (1960) in physics from California Institute of Technology. COBY FLETCHER is a high school French teacher completing a Ph.D. in rheto- ric at the University of Texas at Arlington. Coby and his wife, Isabelle, have four children. AARON GUILE studies creative writing and religious studies at Utah Valley State College. He and his wife are the parents of three children attending Provo High School. This poem was awarded first place in poetry and published by Touchstones: A Magazine of Literature and Art (9, no. 1 [2005]: 57-58), UVSC's lit- erary journal. 174 Contributors 175 BRIAN C. HALES is an anesthesiologist practicing in Layton, Utah, who began investigating the authority claims of Mormon fundamentalists in 1989 when a close relative joined a polygamist group. He co-authored The Priesthood of Modern Polygamy: An LDS Perspective with J. Max Anderson (Salt Lake City: NPI, 1992) and is webmaster of www.mormonfundamentalism.com. This article is taken from his forthcoming book Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations after the Manifesto (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006). G. WESLEY JOHNSON is professor emeritus of history at Brigham Young Uni- versity, currently directing the Outmigration Leadership History Project spon- sored by the Marriott Graduate School of Management, which seeks to docu- ment the reshaping of LDS society in the twentieth century. He served as co-edi- tor of Dialogue from 1965 to 1970, as editor from 1970 to 1971, and as editor in chief of the UC Press, Berkeley publication The Public Historian Quarterly, from 1978 to 1987. He is a modern European historian who emphasizes not only France and French Africa, but modern urban America as well. FRANCES LEE MENLOVE was a founder of Dialogue and its first manuscript editor. She graduated from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan and a Master's of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She has four children and six grand- children and lives on the beautiful Oregon coast. GLEN NELSON is the director of Mormon Artists Group and a writer. His most recent works are a memoir that he co-authored with Grant Johannesen, Journey of an American Pianist (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, forthcoming in the fall of 2006), and an opera with composer Murray Boren, The Book of Gold, which was premiered November 4, 2005, at Brigham Young University. He can be reached at [email protected], and the Mormon Artists Group web may be viewed at http://www.mormonartistsgroup.com/mag/index.html. HUGO OLAIZ, a third-generation Latter-day Saint from Argentina, is the news editor for Sunstone magazine. He has a degree in literature and classics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata and an M.A. in Spanish from Brigham Young University, and he has done graduate work in Hispanic linguistics at the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley. His work has appeared in Dialogue and Sunstone. He maintains a website (www.bellota.org) on the history of the LDS Church in La Plata, Argentina. ROBERT A. REES is a former editor of Dialogue. A specialist in American litera- ture, he has taught at various universities and published scholarly works on American literature and on the Mormon experience. He is the editor of Proving 176 DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, VOL. 39, No. 3 Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England (Salt Lake City: Sig- nature Books, 2005) and Re-Reading the Book of Mormon: Personal Perspectives on a New World Scripture (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, forthcoming). NATHAN ROBISON was born and raised in Provo, Utah. He and his wife, Anna, graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in English. Their two-year-old son, Christopher, is the subject of this poem. Nathan currently di- vides his time between distance running and working as a librarian at the Orem Public Library. He will study at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, beginning in the fall of 2006, working toward an MFA in creative writing. PAUL G. SALISBURY, a native of Springville, Utah, attended schools there and in Salt Lake City. He studied architecture at Stanford University and the Univer- sity of Utah. For almost a decade, he was Director of Campus Planning and Assis- tant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. Now in private architectural practice, he lives in San Francisco. BILL SHEPARD is of Strangite heritage and has a broad interest in Mormon his- tory. He and his wife, Diane, live near the site of James J. Strang's settlement at Voree (Burlington), Wisconsin. Bill is a member of the John Whitmer Historical Association Board, and co-chair of its awards committee. He thanks H. Michael Marquardt for encouragement and for providing references. EARL M. WUNDERLI has degrees in philosophy and law from the University of Utah. He retired as Associate General Counsel of IBM in Connecticut in 1993 and returned to his native Utah. He has long made an avocation of studying the internal evidence in the Book of Mormon, serves on the Sunstone Board of Di- rectors, has published in Dialogue, and has presented several papers at Sunstone Symposia in Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C. DARLENE YOUNG currently serves as secretary for the Association for Mor- mon Letters. She lives in South Jordan with her husband, Roger, and four sons..