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Dawn Baker Brimley

Dawn Baker Brimley was born in Monroe, Utah, and draws insight from her childhood experiences near the mountains and lakes of Utah. She spent every summer until the age of twenty living at Fish Lake, Utah. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University in sociology and psychology. She also has the equivalent of a major in English. A former BYU faculty member, she has taught children’s literature there and elsewhere. She has won several awards for her poetry, including the first place in BYU Eisteddfod competition in lyric poetry and the Ensign’s Eliza R. Snow poetry competition and second place in the BYU Studies poetry contest. For four years she was on the Church’s writing committee, working on Relief Society lessons. She has also written song lyrics, most notably “Thy Will and Work” with composer Newell Dayley. She is married to Dr. Vern Brimley and is the mother of three daughters, grandmother of ten, and great-grandmother of a great-granddaughter. She has published a book of poetry entitled Waking Moments (1989) and is working on another. One of her poems was accepted for the 2004 war and peace issue of Dialogue. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 105]
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
1932
Female
Author
English

13 Works by Dawn Baker Brimley

Title Role Year Genre
Whatever Was Author Poetry
Sanctuary Author Poetry
Koosharem, Utah–1914 Author 1977 Poetry
The Deer Author 1979 Poetry
Still Sounds of Winter Author 1984 Poetry
Not Far Behind Author Poetry
Waking Moments Author 1989 Poetry
Full Circle Summer Author Poetry
Old Language Author Poetry
To a Daughter Author Poetry
John Ormond, Welsh Poet, Speaks (to one of Welsh ancestry) Author 1981 Poetry
Christmas Conflict Author 2004 Poetry
Christmas Carol Author 2006 Poetry
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