David G. Pace

David G. Pace is a fiction (short story and novel) and narrative non-fiction writer, journalist and editor. His most recent book is "American Trinity and Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor" (BCC Press, February 2024) and his debut novel, a coming-of-age story told with magical realism, is titled "Dream House on Golan Drive" (Signature Books, 2015).

He is also a contributor to four anthologies of creative writing, "The Path & The Gate" (Signature Books, 2023); "Blossom as the Cliffrose, Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild" (Torrey House Press, 2021); "Moth & Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death" (Signature Books, 2017); and "Worth their Salt: Notable but often Unnoted Women of Utah" (Utah State University Press, 1996).

An unapologetic and unrepentant "Mormon writer," his other creative work has appeared in the journals Quarterly West, Alligator Juniper, ellipsis...literature & art, Sunstone, Mapping Literary Utah, Dialogue and is forthcoming in the journal The Quarter(ly).

His work has received multiple awards including four from the Utah Original Writing Competition (UOWC), and one each from Writers at Work (for creative nonfiction), Dialogue, and the Association for Mormon Letters (best short fiction, 2011). He was a finalist for the 2017 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Award for his essay, "The Little House We Dance In," part of a larger creative nonfiction work titled COLD DESERT that is currently being shopped and which won 2nd Place in the UOWC in 2018.

He is currently at work on a historical novel with the working title of "Two Hannahs," based on the life of his great grand parents and set in Utah, Northern Mexico and Idaho.