George Handley is a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at BYU where he has taught since 1998. His research interests in the area of environmental humanities have resulted in various publications on literature and the environment; an environmental memoir, Home Waters; a novel, American Fork; and a recent collection of essays on the environmental values of Mormonism, entitled The Hope of Nature. He is currently finishing a book on the writings of Lowell Bennion. He and his wife, Amy, are the parents of four children and grandparents to one new grandson.