Levi S. Peterson, professor of English at Weber State University, is the author of Aspen Marooney, The Backslider, Juanita Brooks, and Night Soil. He is the editor of Greening Wheat and a contributor to Bright Angels and Familiars, A Literary History of the American West, Multiply and Replenish, Tending the Garden, Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free, and The Wilderness of Faith. He has received Best Book and Best Short Story awards from the Association for Mormon Letters, the BYU Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies (USU), and the Utah Arts Council.