Faculty
Nancy Campbell Allen
Nancy Campbell Allen is the author of thirteen novels, which span genres from contemporary romantic suspense to historical fiction. She has been a speaker at numerous writing conferences and events. She has a degree in elementary education and is the mother of three children.
Sarah M. Eden
Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today Bestselling author of witty and charming historical romances, including Foreword Review’s 2013 “IndieFab Book of the Year” gold medal winner for Best Romance, Longing for Home, as well as 2014 Whitney Award winner for "Best Novel of the Year," Longing for Home: Hope Springs. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a Bachelor's degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library. Sarah lives with her husband, kids, and mischievous dog in the shadow of a snow-capped mountain she has never attempted to ski.
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Margot Hovley
Suzy G writes primarily short fiction and essays. She is the host of the podcast Are We Allowed to Talk About This Yet? where she has conversations about the death of things-- people, relationships, beliefs-- and the subsequent birth of new things. (At this stage in life, she’s mildly obsessed with the themes of death and rebirth.) She identifies as a recovering guilt-junky and an optimistic widow. She resides in Nashville, TN with her kids, her cat, and her songwriter boyfriend. No, she can’t sing you any country songs.
Margot Hovley was raised in rural Washington State, where she worked as a girl pig-herder and champion produce boxmaker. She now lives and plays in Utah with her big family. When she's not storytelling, she's hanging out with family, teaching music to the somewhat willing, and fooling with techy gadgets. She loves hiking, traveling, and concocting adventures.
Evelyn Hornbarger
Evelyn Hornbarger is a freelance author and mother of four children living in San Antonio, Texas. She taught middle school English and history in Nebraska public schools, high school creative writing, and coached the high school speech team. Connecting with students and sharing her love of history and literature are her strong points as a teacher. Her hobbies include long distance running, photography, and writing in beautiful notebooks. Evelyn has a B.A. English Literature from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in creative writing, and a Masters of Public Health degree from New Mexico State University.
Krista Jensen
Krista has lived in lush Oregon and rugged Wyoming, but Washington is her beloved home state. She likes to choose familiar settings for her stories, and is grateful to have such inspirational places to choose from. She is a mother of six, gramma of three, a gardener and cook, loves to travel, and lives to make the best of what she's been given.
Krista writes contemporary and historical romance, and fantasy. She is the author of OF GRACE AND CHOCOLATE (2012 Whitney Award Finalist), THE ORCHARD (2013 Whiney Award Finalist), FALLING FOR YOU (2014), and KISSES IN THE RAIN (2015 Whitney Award Finalist) with Covenant Communications. She has novellas in Love Unexpected: With All My Heart (2014), Christmas Grace (2017), and Timeless Romance Anthologies. Krista is a member of LDStorymakers.
Marion Jensen
I’m Marion Jensen. By day I’m a mild-mannered instructional designer at American Express. By night, I put on a cape and write superhero books. Books that will make you laugh, cry (but only because you’re laughing so hard), and then hopefully laugh some more.
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In my spare time I enjoy running, board games, cooking, and reading. I’m also a board-certified, synchronized Pez-dispenser.
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My first book ALMOST SUPER came out in January, 2014 with HarperCollins. The sequel, SEARCHING FOR SUPER came out in January, 2015.
Josi Kilpack
Josi S. Kilpack hated to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and credits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998 and has written twenty-six novels, one cookbook, and been part of multiple collaborations since then. She is a four-time Whitney Award winner and Best of State winner in Fiction. Josi currently lives in Willard, Utah, with her husband and children.
Annette Lyon
Annette Lyon is a USA Today bestselling author, a 5-time Best of State medalist for novels and short stories in Utah, and a Whitney Award winner. She’s had success as a professional editor and in newspaper, magazine, and technical writing, but her first love has always been writing fiction. She’s a cum laude graduate from BYU with a degree in English and is the author of over a dozen books, including the Whitney Award-winning Band of Sisters, a chocolate cookbook, and a grammar guide.
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She is a regular contributor to and the former editor of the Timeless Romance Anthology series. She has received five publication awards from the League of Utah Writers, including the Silver Quill, and she’s one of the four coauthors of the Newport Ladies Book Club series. Annette is represented by Heather Karpas at ICM Partners.
Chris Todd Miller
Gold Quill Winner of the 2013 League of Utah Writers for Speculative Fiction. Former president of the League of Utah Writers.
Jennifer Moore
Jennifer Moore is a passionate reader and writer of all things romance due to the need to balance the rest of her world that includes a perpetually traveling husband and four active sons, who create heaps of laundry that are anything but romantic. She suffers from an acute addiction to 18th and 19th century military history and literature. Jennifer has a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Utah and is a Guitar Hero champion. She lives in northern Utah with her family, but most of the time wishes she was on board a frigate during the Age of Sail.
Cory Anderson
Cory was born in Idaho and grew up an outdoor girl in the wild Middle Rockies, where her father—a Forest Service ranger—encouraged her to explore the woods and find “what beauty there is” in the world. She now lives in the Wasatch Mountains, where she spends countless hours writing, sometimes in the woods with just a pencil and paper. Cory is represented by Lindsay Auld at Writers House, and her debut YA thriller What Beauty There Is is set for publication in 2020 by Macmillan Publishers.
Robison Wells
Robison Wells is the author of fourteen novels including Variant, Feedback, Blackout, Deadzone, Dark Energy, and Airships of Camelot. Variant was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers and a Bestseller. His books have been published in nine different languages in more than two dozen countries, and he is the winner of many awards both in and out of the United States.
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Robison has an MBA in Marketing, and a BS in Political Science, with an emphasis in International Relations of the Middle East.
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Robison suffers from a handful of mental illnesses, and writes and speaks extensively on the topic.