Valerie Holladay

VALERIE HOLLADAY received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Brigham Young University. Her personal essays have previously appeared in Dialogue and other literary magazines. Currently the senior fiction editor for Covenant Communications, she enjoys having a role in shaping LDS literature.

Mothers, Daughters, and Dolls

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

Came home from school Thursday about 7:30 absolutely exhausted but committed to writing a paper. Although I had planned to go to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro that night, I forgot to get tickets before it…

Street Symphony

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 3

“I saw Cory yesterday,” Mom tells me when I meet her downtown for lunch. She used to play her harmonica outside Crossroads Mall, before she moved to the ZCMI Center. She doesn’t play her harmonica…

The Path of the Wanderer: Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3

In his novella, A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean describes a conversation with his father, who knows of Norman’s desire to write. “You like to tell true stories, don’t you?” the father asks. “Yes,”…