Phyllis Barber

 

In 2010 Phyllis read from her new book, Raw Edges: A Memoir, as well as answering questiona. She was also be a member of a panel about writing with the several other authors.

About Raw Edges:

"In this remarkably honest memoir, Phyllis Barber takes readers on a harrowing journey from Mormon girlhood through marriage, motherhood, codependency, and a thousand-mile bicycle trip to an epiphany in a Denver attic. Although the details belong to her, the issues she explores will be familiar to anyone who has navigated the boundary between compassion and obsession." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

 

About Phyllis:

Phyllis Barber is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is Raw Edges: A Memoir (The University of Nevada Press, 2010) --a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story. An earlier memoir, How I Got Cultured, was the winner of the Associated Writing Programs Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1991 as well as the Association for Mormon Letters Award in Autobiography in 1993, and earned her an appearance on the NBC-Today Show in 1997. She has been anthologized extensively, the most recent occasion being Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction (Zarahemla Books, Provo, Utah, 2010), and she currently teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program (a low-residency program). She has published in many literary journals, including Agni Magazine, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, North American Review, Dialogue, and Sunstone, among others, is one of the founders of the Writers at Work Conference in Utah, and has recently been invited to be a plenary speaker at the International Conference on the American Literary West in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, next October. She lives in Denver and is the mother of four sons and grandmother of four grandchildren.