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The Expanding World of Michelle Dorrance
Meet Marianne
Saving Me
Lindsey Stirling
Proximity Through Podcasts
Jonna
Native Media Theory
was this the face
Brian Kershisnik
Daniel Everett
The Player
The National Parks Tour
Come Follow Me Resources
Mario R. Montani
The Season
Congratulations on The Season. This is fantastic. Just this week, I googled the name of an artist to determine whether he was LDS. Now not only names but articles, and since I will know their tour dates, I might be able to get tickets to see them perform. We really needed this magazine. Fabulous. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that you sent me my first issue.
Sharon Bender
Basking Ridge, NJ
New York, NY
Out of Nephi
I really enjoyed your insights on the Christian backgrounds of The Killer’s frontman Brandon Flowers and solo artist Bruce Springsteen (“Brandon Flowers’s Pressure Machine,” September). Both are global superstars with upbringings that peek through their lyrics. But for me just the idea that Brandon Flowers hails from Nephi, Utah, makes me a proud daughter of Utah pioneers. My great-great-grandparents who emigrated from England and Scotland—Benjamin and Sarah Jane Bamford Riches and James R. and Jane Ann Ollerton McPherson—settled that farming community. My grandpa Heber Cyrus Crane was mayor for years in the mid-twentieth century, and my family’s visits to Grandma and Grandpa Crane’s always made the social column of the local newspaper—not too unusual for a small-town newspaper in the 1960s except for the fact that we visited every other Sunday. It was a community of about 2,000 when my mother grew up in the 1920s and ‘30s. Now it is bustling with over 4,000 residents. It’s still small, it’s still quaint, and people on Main Street still say hello. I encourage anyone traveling on I-15 to take a Nephi exit and explore. Who knows, you may run into a young and upcoming global superstar.
Peggy Johnson
Salt Lake City, Utah
Charlie Bird
Charlie Bird is a bestselling author of the book, Without the Mask: Coming Out and Coming Into God’s Light, and is a podcaster based in Utah. He is a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who loves hiking, travel, and gymnastics.
Richard Bushman
Richard Bushman, a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, is the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, and many other books on American history. His forthcoming volume is a cultural history of the Golden Plates.
Ted Bushman
Ted Bushman writes musical theater and science fiction. His musicals include Cyrano Electronique, Theodore in the Valley, and Human; his stories have been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Metaphorosis.
Emily Larsen Doxford
Emily Larsen Doxford is the marketing and communications director for the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. A writer and communications professional, she received her MA in American and English Literature from NYU.
Christopher Duggan
Christopher Duggan is a New York-based photographer with a decade of experience capturing dance in New York City and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Megan Eckersley
Megan Eckersley is a graphic designer based out of New York City and has worked with clients like Squarespace. She is currently at Square as a Brand Designer.
Brontë Hebdon
Brontë Hebdon is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is also the 2022-23 Veronika Gervers Fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Mario R. Montani
Mario R. Montani is the author of the blog Mormosophía, and he is part of the collective, Cofradía de Letras Mormonas, a quarterly online journal dedicated to describing and discovering the work of Mormon writers in Spanish.
Glen Nelson
Glen Nelson is an author and librettist. His oratorio with composer Ethan Wickman, To a Village Called Emmaus, was recently recorded by Craig Jessop and the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra for a forthcoming commercial release.
Jeff Parkin
Jeff Parkin is a writer-director-producer and a film professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Brigham Young University. He is currently finishing a short horror film.
Arisael Rivera
Arisael Rivera is an actor, playwright, and poet based in The Bronx, New York. Most recently, his poem "Jubilant Feet" was published in the anthology Love Letters to Gaia by Miro C.
Madeline Rupard
Madeline Rupard received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. Her recent paintings of the American West appeared in this years’ New American Paintings Juried-In-Print Exhibition, Issue #156.
Mykal Urbina
Mykal Urbina serves as the executive director of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts.
