Heidi Naylor

HEIDI NAYLOR {[email protected]} teaches English at Boise State University. Her short story collection, Revolver, was published by BCC Press in April 2018.

Caught in the Crosshairs | Maurine Whipple, A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 3

The life of Maurine Whipple, lauded Mormon author of the 1941 novel The Giant Joshua, is one of the saddest stories in LDS literature. She loved her people, the tough and hardscrabble settlers of St.…

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Newborn

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 2

Tell us the dream where you entered the mountain
and left all your gold for the dawn

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Commitment Beyond Custom | Michael Fillerup, The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 4

I once had a bishop who was as guileless as he was faithful, a good and generous man who worked hard and loved us, his ward members, tirelessly. He liked to tell our ward’s young…

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Backwards Pioneers

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

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Review: Can Faith Survive Choice and Circumstance? Jack Harrell. Caldera Ridge.

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4

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The Home Teacher

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 2

Bishop warned Brock Hartman ahead of time. “They’ll ask for a food order.”  He opened a desk drawer and took out a binder filled with requisitions for the storehouse.  “But they have a decent income…

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