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John Bennion

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John Bennion writes novels, essays, and short fiction about the western Utah desert and the people who inhabit that forbidding country. He has published a collection of short fiction, Breeding Leah and other Stories (Signature Books, 1991), and a novel, Falling Toward Heaven (Signature Books, 2000). He has published short work in Ascent, AWP Chronicle, English Journal, Utah Holiday, Journal of Experiential Education, Sunstone Magazine, Best of the West II, Black American Literature Forum, Journal of Mormon History, and others. He has written two contemporary young adult novels, Born of Ashes and Snake in Eden. An associate professor at Brigham Young University, Bennion teaches creative writing and the British novel. He has made a special study of the late Victorian and Modern writer, Thomas Hardy. As a teacher, he specializes in experiential writing and literature programs, including Wilderness Writing, a class in which students backpack and then write personal narratives about their experiences; and England and Literature, a study abroad program during which students study Romantic and Victorian writers and hike through the landscapes where those writers lived.
John Serge Bennion
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LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Karla Bennion

B.A. in English from Utah State University (1977)

M.A. in English from BYU (1981)

Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston (1989)

Associate professor at Brigham Young University
Male
Author, Interviewee
English

22 Works by John Bennion

Title Role Year Genre
Breeding Leah Author 1991 Short Story
Falling Toward Heaven Author 2000 Novel
The Interview Author 1985 Fiction
A Court of Love Author Short Story
A House of Order Author 1988 Fiction
Breeding Leah Author Short Story
The Chimerical Desert Author Personal Essay
The Burial Pool Author Novel Excerpt
Dust Author Short Story
[Interview with Mary Clyde] Author Interview / Panel
Doubt and the Desert Author Personal Essay
Surviving with Hope Author Review
An Interview with John Bennion Interviewee Interview / Panel
Individualism and the Mormon West Author Review
The Lost Sons Author 1981
Dusty Author Short Story
Like the Lilies of the Field Author Personal Essay
[Review of] Benediction: A Book of Stories, by Neal Chandler Author Review
from Fall Toward Heaven Author 1999 Fiction
Ezekiel's Third Wife Author 2019 Historical Fiction
An Unarmed Woman Author 2019 Novel
from Falling Toward Heaven Author 1999 Fiction
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