Patricia Gunter Karamesines

PATRICIA KARAMESINES roams and writes in southeastern Utah. She has won several literary awards for her poetry, essays, and fic￾tion, including from Brigham Young University, the University of Arizona, the Utah Arts Council, and the Utah Wilderness Associa￾tion. A poet, essayist, and novelist, she has published in literary journals and popular magazines locally and nationally. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (2004, Signature Books) won the 2004 AML Award for the Novel. She writes for the blog A Motley Vision and runs AMV’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone, a blog focused on nature writing.