Julie J. Nichols
Julie J. Nichols {[email protected]} is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Literature at Utah Valley University, where she teaches creative writing. She is the author of Pigs When They Straddle the Air (Zarahemla, 2016) and is at work on the first in a series of novels set in various underground Salt Lake communities. She is on the editorial board of Weber: The Contemporary West as well as Fiction and Personal Voices editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She lives in Provo with her husband; they are grandparents to fourteen beautiful children who live all over the western United States.