Eh hem, I'm *published*! Go read my essay: "A Live Coal" in Exponent II Magazine

Do you know that there is a whole rich ecosphere of Mormon feminism? And it's been fermenting and mossing and mulching and growing and sprouting and reseeding along for 50 years? My mom, way back in the late 70s, was the kind of feminist it was possible for a 20 year old Mormon from Provo to be. She saw the face of God and called her Mom. These ladies were her pals.

The Exponent II Magazine was founded in 1974 as a-- what is the appropriate gathering place for Mormon feminists? A Foyer? A Forest? A Grove? And these amazing women have been holding conversations and each other for decades. When the Mormon church opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, and fired BYU professors who talked about Heavenly Mother, and disfellowshipped ladies who wanted to come to church in slacks, and fought same sex marriage, the Mormon feminist forest floor was the soft mulchy place where people came to fall apart and be nourished and regrow.

And I just had a piece published there! It is in the volume on the theme of Stranger Than Fiction. Here is the link to my piece: https://exponentii.org/2024/12/11/a-live-coal/
Please buy copies, give it a read, support the magazine, and enjoy! 

My favorite thing about this process was actually thus:
The theme was "Stranger than Fiction," right? So I wrote about weird coincidences and weird overlaps and the idea of fate and guidance and numbers lining up, and happy ever afters as narrative frameworks, you know, the UZH...
But when I heard back from the magazine, they said they were so excited to publish this piece of fiction! 
And I had to say, urmmm, it is... actually.... non-fiction. 

My stranger than fiction non-fiction was so strange they thought it was fiction again. Is that bragging rights? I'm choosing to call it bragging rights. Anyway, here's to a weird, mossy, coincident-rich life full of the gradual mulching and regeneration of the timbers of the world!