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Joanna Brooks

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Joanna Brooks is a fourth-generation Angeleno, the descendant of handcart pioneers, Basques and Okies. Her poetry, fiction, and critical theory have appeared in Race Traitor, Zyzzyra, Suitcase, South Dakota Review, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She worked on a doctorate in American literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
1971-09-29
Orange County, California
PhD at the University of California Los Angeles, Brigham Young University
Professor and interim chair of the department of English and Comparative Literature, Mormon scholar, columnist
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English

5 Works by Joanna Brooks

Title Role Year Genre
Still Leaping Author Unassigned
Badlands Author Short Story
When Coyotes Take the Bandstand, the Small House Lean Author 1992 Fiction
The Book of Mormon Girl Author 2012
Pilgrimage Author 1994 Poetry
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