Marianne Hales Harding

MARIANNE HALES HARDING {marianne_hales_harding@hotmail. com} is a playwright, poet, and essayist who founded Provo, Utah’s Speak for Yourself creative writing open mic. Her plays have been produced across the country at theaters such as the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle’s Greenstage Theatre, New York’s Theatre Studio, and Provo’s Covey Center. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in Everyday Mormon Writer, Silver Birch Press, Mormon Artist, ePregnancy, and Rocky Mountain Running Magazine. She is a faculty member in composition for Western Governors University and teaches playwriting at Brigham Young University.