Sam Cannon

SAM CANNON lives in Salt Lake City, where he edits and publishes grid magazine and is an M.F.A. student at the University of Utah.

Cordoba

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

Mom moved up to Santa Barbara, and Dad started having girlfriends over. Ladyfriends, he called them. When I stayed home sick from school, I saw the ladyfriends leave for work. “How cute. Is this yours?”…

Don’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

Custom/culture; sacred/profane; vision/imagination; literal/figurative—call them borderlands, call them crossroads—we catch glimpses of possibility and more fully understand the limits of our faith in these places. And the place where “Mormon” crosses “literature” looks like the…