Laurie Illions Rodriguez

LAURIE ILLIONS RODRIGUEZ {[email protected]} has a BM in violin performance and pedagogy and an MA in English from BYU. She has written articles for Colloquium: Essays in Literature and Belief, the AML Annual, and Affirmation as well as divrei Torah for her synagogue. Laurie teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at NIU Community School of the Arts.

Virginia Is Not Lost! | Stephen Carter, Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 2

As a baby, author Virginia Sorensen’s first sentence was “tell me a story.” According to her mother, this was soon followed by her second sentence, “I’ll tell you a story” (2). In his recently released…