Stan Andersen

STAN ANDERSEN, born in 1922 on a Bear River Valley farm homesteaded by his grandfather, began his writing and teaching career as a journalist for the Salt Lake Tribune and the Logan Herald Journal. After war service he pursued higher education through the GI Bill of Rights and became a professor, first at his alma mater, Utah State University, then at the University of Minnesota while earning his doctoral degree, and finally at San Francisco State University, where he is now an emeritus professor. He has also taught, as a visiting Fulbright professor, at the University of Helsinki. He was an early contributor to DIALOGUE with "From Utah Poems: To Elias" (Autumn 1969).