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Office Hours Mentors
Lance Larsen
Appointments: Thursday, August 27 2:00-5:00p.m.
“My bread-and-butter is poetry with side hustles in short fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, and aphorisms. Feel free to ask me anything related to these genres. I’ve also served as English Dept. Chair at BYU, and I currently serve as the MFA coordinator. I am at sea when it comes to the novel.”
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Former poet laureate of Utah, Lance Larsen recently published his sixth poetry collection, What the Body Knows (Tampa 2024). His poetry and prose appear widely in such venues as Paris Review, The Sun, Southern Review, Georgia Review, New York Review of Books, The London Magazine, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His honors include a Pushcart prize and fellowships from Sewanee, Ragdale, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at BYU. Sometimes he juggles.
Glen Nelson
Appointments: August 10 9:00a.m.–5:00p.m. EDT
Discuss anything about your work and career development with the author, scholar, curator, librettist, art collector, and recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Mormon Letters.
English and limited Spanish.
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Glen Nelson is the author of: 34 books; 137 essays, articles, and interviews; 22 works of fiction, theater, and poetry; the librettist of 8 operas and 22 choral works, art songs, and hymns. He received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Mormon Letters “as a facilitator of others’ work and as an author and artist himself.” As a ghostwriter, three of his books have become nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. He curated the museum exhibition, John Held, Jr. (Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 2024-25) and three gallery exhibitions, each with an accompanying exhibition catalog. His most recent book is John Held, Jr.’s Fiction (Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, 2022). His latest recording, with composer Ethan Wickman, is the oratorio, To a Village Called Emmaus (American Festival Orchestra and Chorus, 2023), and his most recent opera, with Grammy Award-winning composer Lansing McLoskey, is The Captivity of Hannah Duston (Guerilla Opera, 2025), recipient of a 2024 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. He is a contributing author to Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2024) and The Difficult Part, Brian Kershisnik: A Mid-career Retrospective (BYU MOA, 2024). He is the co-founder of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts and is its Director of Special Projects. www.glen-nelson.com
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