Liz Busby

LIZ BUSBY {[email protected]} is a graduate student in the English MA program at BYU. She is a writer of speculative fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as book reviews and literary criticism, particularly about the intersection between Mormonism and science fiction/fantasy. She also cohosts the podcast Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree, which applies an LDS lens to mainstream movies and television. More of her writing can be found at lizbusby.com.

Articles

Writing from the Inside | Jacob Bender, And All Eternity Shook, and Darin Cozzens, The History of Honey Spring

Lately, I’ve heard in a couple of different places that faithful Latter-day Saints just can’t write perceptively about their community. Often, these assertions are offered as a justification for the recent proliferation of the Hollywood…

A Freakonomics Spin on Apologetics in Favor of Modern Irrationality | Terryl Givens and Nathaniel Givens, Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is

When I received a review copy of Terryl and Nathaniel Givens’ new book Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is, I was warned by the author that as a book about…