Is the sky hallucinating? Am I?
Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah
Just let me stand here with an open eye.
Jacqueline Osherow
Mapping Literary Utah ambitiously aims to chart the state’s expansive literary landscape.
Explore Utah’s Authors
Mapping Literary Utah encourages readers to explore connections between author, their creative work and environment, or even between different authors attached to the same place over time. The purpose of Mapping Literary Utah is to chart the state’s wide-ranging literary landscape through brief author biographies, work samples, photos and video or audio material.
Explore the map by region, or view our authors to search by name and literary genre.
Spotlight
An Introduction to Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is one of Utah’s most decorated, popular, and controversial living authors. Card believes strongly in writing for the widest possible audience, producing novels and short stories tha
An Introduction to Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams is arguably one of Utah's most influential living authors. In her essays, poetry, and memoirs, she uses her distinctive voice to argue for a deeply personal connection between l
Environmental Writing in Utah
The landforms of Utah have long impressed visitors and residents alike. As the most striking distinctive imaginative features of Utah, the slot canyons, mountains, and, of course, lakes have inspired
LGBTQIA Literature in Utah
That dear white hand within my own I took "Illa,” I whispered, "May I keep it so?" My eager blood my anxious cheek forsook Fearing my love that loved me might say no.... She raised her eyes. There loo
The Literary Legacy of Topaz
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing for the mass removal of Japanese Americans along the West Coast of the United States for supposed national s
Young Adult Literature in Utah
Utah seems to punch above its weight in producing well-known young adult (YA) literature, with a variety of renowned authors claiming either residence in or influence from the state. Utah has been cal
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