Karin Anderson

After a magical Utah childhood (horses, mountains, apple trees), Karin Anderson still managed to overcomplicate her adult relationship to home roots. She came of age in the season of Cold War, Watergate, Ted Bundy, Gary Gilmore, the Sagebrush Rebellion, and organized community resistance to the Equal Rights Amendment -- more than enough to write about until whatever Kingdom Comes.

Currently, she resides in Salt Lake City. Warmly affiliated with Torrey House Press, she is the author of Before Us Like a Land of Dreams, a sequence of stacked narratives founded on ancestral tales; What Falls Away, a novel about a young woman who returns to her Utah hometown after forty years of exile; co-editor of Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, an anthology of essays and poetry from a range of practicing, non-practicing, faithful, heretical, and apostate writers addressing their commitment to the natural environment.