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Local Authors
Many talented authors call Utah home, and The King's English is privileged to support their work and grateful for their friendship. Here are some of the creative people who have visited TKE over the years.
 Terry Tempest WilliamsWilliams is perhaps best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon, 1991), where she chronicles the epic rise of Great Salt Lake and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in 1983, alongside her mother's diagnosis with ovarian cancer, believed to be caused by radioactive fallout from the nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950's and 60's, is now regarded as a classic in American Nature Writing. |  Stephen TrimbleStephen Trimble was born in Denver, his family's base for roaming the West with his geologist father. After a liberal arts education at Colorado College, he worked as a park ranger in Colorado and Utah, earned a master's degree in ecology at the University of Arizona, served as director of the Museum of Northern Arizona Press, and for five years lived near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been a full-time free-lance writer and photographer since 1981. |  Katharine ColesUtah's Poet Laureate, Katie Coles' books include the novels Fire Season and The Measureable World and three collections of poems, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry, among many other journals. |
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 Betsy BurtonBetsy Burton is the co-owner and co-founder of the King's English bookstore. She still loves the book business as much as she did when she started over thirty years ago. |  David KanesFor the past four decades, David Kranes has been one of the most influential and sustained forces for writing and fostering writers in Utah. Throughout his career he has been a prolific writer, producing stories, plays, novels, screenplays, and lectures. His plays have been performed in New York and across the United States at notable regional theaters. |  Gordon CampbellLong time customer and newly minted mystery writer, Gordon Campbell has taken the publishing world by storm with his courtroom procedural, Missing Witness. |
 Heather ArmstrongFamous (or infamous) as DOOCE.COM, Heather Armstrong is the author of two hilarious and heart-warming books, Things I Learned About My Dad (In Therapy) and It Sucked and Then I Cried. She lives in Salt Lake with her husband and daughters. |  Jacqueline OsherowThe author of six books of poetry, Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Twentieth Century American Poetry, The Wadsworth Anthology of Poety and The Norton Anthology of Jewish-America |  Jana RichmanJana Richman is the author of a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail, and two novels, The Last Cowgirl, which won the 2009 Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and The Ordinary Truth. Jana’s provocative prose has been compared to that of Pam Houston, Barbara Kingsolver and Pat Conroy. |
 Joel LongJoel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes is availible from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Seattle Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, and Mid-American Review among others. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Fresh Water, American Poetry: the Next Generation and Essential Love. He received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002. |  Klancy Clark de NeversKlancy Clark de Nevers is a printer's daughter who grew up proofreading, doing bindery work and numbering ballots in her father's business, Quick Print Co. in Aberdeen, Washington. The rush to get the Grays Harbor Post out every Friday night gave structure to her family's week. During World War II four of her uncles were in the armed forces and by observing how closely her family followed the progress of the war, she gained an enduring interest in the history of that era. |  Lanna CairnsInternationally recognized professional organizer, Lanna Cairns, has been teaching people how to gain mastery over their physical environment since 1998. Her client list is vast as well as impressive, including: BMW, Sylvan Learning Center, Canyon Ranch, SBC Global, Harcourt-Brace, Mondavi Wineries and Schramsberg Winery, amongst others. A popular, entertaining public speaker, Cairns frequently addresses gatherings of Global CEO's on behalf of TEC Intentional, a company that educates CEOs around |
 Michael GIllsMichael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October, the title story of which just won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. |  Natasha SajeIn 1955 I was born "stateless" in Munich, Germany, to refugee parents with whom I subsequently emigrated to New York City. Grew up mostly in New York and New Jersey, with three years in Indiana. In between or concurrent with formal education I've had many non-academic jobs. Published two books of poems, and many essays on 18th- and 19th- century novels, poetics, and life as a teacher and writer. |  Dorothee KocksDorothee Kocks is the author of three books, the historical novel The Glass Harmonica; the multimedia ebook Such Were My Temptations, which recreates some of the true history behind the novel; and the non-fiction Dream a Little. For half her life, Dorothee took a traditional academic path. She earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown University, wrote a well-respected scholarly book, and climbed the tenure ladder at the University of Utah. |
 Julianne DonaldsonJulianne Donaldson grew up as the daughter of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. She learned how to ski in the Italian Alps, visited East Berlin before the wall came down, and spent three years living next to a 500-year-old castle. After earning a degree in English, she turned her attention to writing about distant times and places. She lives in Utah with her husband and four children. Edenbrooke is her first novel. |  Kirstin ScottKirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and the Utah Original Writing Competition. Her short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, Western Humanities Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She works as a medical writer and lives in Chiapas, Mexico with her family. |  Lily HaveyLily Havey was born in Los Angeles in 1932. Ten years later, along with 120,000 other people of Japanese descent (many native-born American citizens), she was incarcerated in American prison camps, first at Santa Anita Assembly Center and then at the Amache Relocation Center. After World War II her family moved to Salt Lake City. |
 Paisley RekdalPaisley Rekdal is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming Council of the Arts Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. |  Annette HawsA native of Logan, Utah and a graduate of Utah State University, Annette Haws examines the tribulations and foibles of characters playing their parts on a small stage. She did graduate work at the University of Iowa and the University of Utah. Her first novel, WAITING FOR THE LIGHT TO CHANGE (2008) won Best of State, a Whitney Award for Best Fiction, and the League of Utah Writers Award for Best Published Fiction. |
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