Kent Miles — Author/Photographer


Kent Miles is a native of Salt Lake City and a widely renowned Salt Lake portrait photographer who specializes in fine art portraits in a classic documentary style. After attending the University of Utah, he graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams handed him his diploma. He has […]

James N. Kimball — Author


James N. Kimball – (1936-2004) spent years traveling the globe gathering the stories contained in Mormon Women: Portraits & Conversations. He spoke to church and civic groups throughout the west. A travel writer and Salt Lake City businessman, and a Bishop. Jim was a community treasure, famous for his hilarious retelling of stories about J. […]

Lindy Kerby — Composer


There is something about a song that speaks to my soul. It happens when I hear a beautiful emotional melody, or a lyric that captures exactly the way I am feeling at the present time. As a composer, I’ve had the opportunity to feel this connection almost every time I sit down to the piano. […]

Jett Atwood — Illustrator


Jeanette ‘Jett’ Atwood — Drawing since the age of 6, Jett is one of those rare individuals that knew what she wanted to be at a very early age. Jett is an Eisner-nominated animator and illustrator who works as a storyboard artist at a Los Angeles animation studio. She graduated from Sheridan College in classical […]

Stephen Carter — Author


Stephen Carter has been a member of Readaholics Anonymous since age four when Mister M with the Munchy Mouth first entered his life. In an attempt to make his addiction to words profitable, Stephen worked as a full-time journalist for a few years before running off to Alaska to earn an MFA in creative writing […]

Robert Kirby — Author


Robert Kirby was born into a military family. After completing high school he served a two-year mission in Uruguay for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon his return he pursued a career in law enforcement with the Grantsville, Utah Police Department in 1978 and then the Springville, Utah police department in 1979. […]

Pat Bagley — Author/Illustrator


Patrick “Pat” Bagley (born 1956) is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an author and illustrator of several books. Bagley was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Oceanside, California, where his father was mayor and his mother was a school teacher. Always […]

Jon Robert Howe — Author


Jon Robert Howe is first last, and always a seeker of truth who is happy to share — an educator experienced in multimedia ways to make learning memorable. He has been in turns a newspaper photographer, radio news broadcaster, professional Santa Claus, actor, video producer, musical playwright, graphic and Internet designer, marketing executive, innovative blogger […]