News & Updates

Books and Authors in the News:

• The Utah Division of State History granted Virginia Kerns the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the scholarly nonfiction category for the WILLA awards from Women Writing the West for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the Best Biography Award from Mormon History Association for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
• Do you want to peruse our Mormon History titles? Take a look at our Mormon Studies catalog here.

Press Prizes:

Béatrice Szymkowiak won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her manuscript B/RDS.

Thomas Bowen won the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize for his manuscript, On Desert Shores: Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of Mexico .